TSUBOSAKA REIGENKI
(壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)

aka TSUBOSAKA (壺坂)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kanzeon Keshin (観世音化身)

       

Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/1903
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
  Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

                   
  Kataoka Gatô III (片岡我当) as
  Sawaichi (沢市)

                
Plays:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記);
Mikazuki (三日月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/23/03
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Unread as Gankyû (雁九)

Unread as Kanzeon  (観世音) 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片山小左衛門) as
Sawaichi (沢市)
 
Unread as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/10/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although there was a production
of Tsubosaka Reigenki at the Meiji-za
in March 1907, Nizaemon XI was not
in that production.  I have not been
 able to find a production with
Nizaemon XI as Sawaichi prior to 1914.
 
 
 
 

                    
Murata Kikuko (村田嘉久子) as
Osato (嘉久子お里)

Sawamura Sônosuke I 
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Zatô Sawaichi  (座頭沢市)

Play: Tsubosaka (壷坂) 
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1915
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Ogawa Hyôe (小川兵衛)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Yamabuki Hime Tomoe Gozen Koi no Yoshinaka (山吹姫巴御前戀の義仲); Tsubosaka (壺坂);
Joyû Fuzei (女優風情); Ôgijishi (扇獅子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki  cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Plays: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/21
Print Date: 11/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Plays: Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩); Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji (忠臣蔵年中行事);
Tsuri On'na (釣女);  Sengokujidaishi no Ichipêji (戦国時代史の一頁); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
Rabu Tetsugaku (ラヴ哲学); Hikari to Iro (光と色) (dance)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/25
Print Date: 12/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Ichikawa Shôchô III (市川松蔦) as
Osato (お里)
 
Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô III performed this role in
Toyko at Toyoko Hall in December 1955
and at the Tokiwa-za in May 1958.