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
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Kan Shôjô (菅丞相; 管丞相) in Sugawara
Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑). The other figure on the cover is as yet unidentified.
 
 

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: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki  cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Kiyomi Hidemitsu
(清見秀光) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Fujiwara Motofusa (藤原基房) in Yamabuki Hime
Tomoe Gozen Koi no Yoshinaka (山吹姫巴御前戀の義仲).
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Zatô Sawaichi  (座頭沢市)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)
 
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: 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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)
and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) in Taiko no
Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Banto Gobei
(番頭五兵衛),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Haiya Saburôbê (灰屋三郎兵衛),
and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Keizan-ko (慶山公) in Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨).
 
 

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.

       
        Kannon (観音) 

        Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
        (壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記).
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson