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.
 
 
 
 

                 
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:  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: 05/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover depicts Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Kan-U (関羽) in Sangokushi (三国誌);
and Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌), and  Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) 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