NIJIRIGAKI NANATSU IROHA
(拙筆力七以呂波)

aka TOMO YAKKO (供奴)
aka KEISEI (傾城; 契情)
aka KOI KEISEI (*****)
aka SHIKAN KEISEI (芝翫**)
aka SHIKAN YAKKO (芝翫奴)

                 
 
Plays:  Tsutae Kiku Date no Hyôjô
(傳聞伊達大評定); Ibaraki (茨木); Sakuratsuba
Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘);
Nakazô Kyôran (仲蔵狂乱); Shikan Yakko
(芝翫奴)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/24/17
Print Date: 09/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Hozuki Books
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Ibaraki (茨木) in Ibaraki (茨木)
and another actor in an unknown role.
 
 
 
 

               
Yakko (供奴)
 
Play: Tomo Yakko (供奴)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 13, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Cornell University
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Yakko (奴)
 
Plays: Kamakurayama Noboru no Asahina (鎌倉山昇朝比奈); Akichi Ura (空地裏); Tomo Yakko (供奴);
Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami  (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/01/22
Print Date: 08/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Wada Saemon'nojô  Yoshimori
(和田左衛門尉義盛) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)  as Asahina Saburô Yoshihide
(朝比奈三郎義秀) in Kamakurayama Noboru no Asahina (鎌倉山昇朝比奈); and  Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛) in Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami  (夏祭浪花鑑).
 
 

 
Plays: Sakazaki Dewa-no-Kami (坂崎出羽守);
Sagi Musume (鷺娘); Ryōshi (漁師); Tomo Yakko
(供奴); Suiten-gū Megumi no Fukagawa
(水天宮利生深川)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/04/24
Print Date: 10/04/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康),
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakazaki
Narimasa (坂崎成正), and  Bandô Hikosaburô
VI (坂東彦三郎) as Konchiin Sûden (金地院崇伝)
in Sakazaki Dewa-no-Kami (坂崎出羽守).
 
 
 

                    
 
Plays:  Jirokichi Zange (次郎吉懺悔); Sangokushi
(三国誌); Shichimai Tsuzuki Hana no Sugatae
(七枚続花の姿絵);  Sôrô Kashiko Kuruwa Tsuribari
(候かしこ廓釣針); Tadanao-kô Gôjôki (忠直卿行状記);
Nijiri Gaki Nanatsu Iroha (拙筆力七以呂波); Yukijorô
(雪女郎)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/01/28
Print Date: 05/01/28
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Bandô Hikosaburô VI
(坂東彦三郎) as Kan-U (関羽) in Sangokushi
(三国誌; Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Shiokumi no Ama Karina (汐汲の海女刈菜) in
Shichimai Tsuzuki Hana no Sugatae
(七枚続花の姿絵); and Ichikawa Omezô IV
(市川男女蔵) and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) in unknown roles.
 
 
 

Play: Tomo Yakko (供奴)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Nagauta (長唄)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Yakko (奴)

Play: Tomo Yakko
(供奴)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Hana no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 花の巻)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Yakko (奴)

Play: Nijirigaki Nanatsu Iroha (拙筆力七以呂波)
Print Date: 1987
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 

               
Nakamura Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助(3代目) as
Yakko (奴)
 
? as ?
 
Play: Tomo Yakko (供奴)
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 8-25, 1999
Print Date: 1999
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Chûjôhime Koseki no
Matsu (中将姫古跡の松), Shinkei Kasane-ga-Fuchi (真景累ヶ淵),
Tomo Yakko (供奴), Shinpan Ukina no Yomiuri (新版色読販),
and Iro Moyô Chotto Karaimane (色彩間苅豆).  It starred
Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (沢村宗十郎;  澤村宗十郎), Nakamura
Shikan VII (中村芝翫), Nakamura Fukusuke IX (中村福助),
Nakamura Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助), Bandô Yajûrô,
Matsumoto Kôemon I (松本幸右衛門), and Sawamura
Tetsunosuke V (沢村鉄之助;  澤村鐵之助).
 
 

                 
Tomo Yakko (供奴)

Play: Nijirigaki Nanatsu Iroha (拙筆力七以呂波)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                 
Yakko (奴)

Play: Nijirigaki Nanatsu Iroha (拙筆力七以呂波)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com