TSURUKAME
(鶴亀)

aka GEKKYÔ-DEN (月宮殿)

                
Tortoise] Kame (亀) 
 
[Crane] Tsuru (鶴)

Play: Tsurukame (鶴亀)
Print Date: 12/10/97
  Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#7]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

                
 Tortoise (亀)
 
 Emperor Gensô [Xuanzong]
 Gensô Kôtei (玄宗皇帝)
 
  Crane (鶴)

  Play: Tsurukame (鶴亀)
  Print Date: 08/28/26
  Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
  Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures]  Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 5, #6
  Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 

[Tortoise] Kame (亀)      

Play: Tsurukame (鶴亀一名月宮殿)
Print Date: 12/1924
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#55-57]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University


 

[Emperor] Kôtei (皇帝)


 

                
[Crane] Tsuru (鶴)


 

           
[Crane] Tsuru (鶴)
 
[Tortoise] Kame (亀) 
     
Print Date: Tsurukame
(鶴亀) [Gekkyû-den (月宮殿)]
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (忠度)
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Series: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

                           
        Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Kame (亀)

        Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as Tsuru (鶴)

        Play: Tsuru Kame (鶴亀)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 1929
        Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
        Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
        (創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#36)
        Personal Collection

        Note: Although the print bears a 1928 date, it was not
        actually published until 1929.  Nonetheless, this suggests that
        the performance depicted transpired on or before 1928.
 
 
 
 

                
[Crane] Tsuru (鶴)
 
[Emperor] Kôtei (皇帝)
 
[Tortoise] Kame (亀) 

Play: Tsurukame (鶴亀)
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
of New York
 
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Tsurukame (鶴龜); Mitsu no Kokoro (三つの心); Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧);
Mizu Kakeron (水掛論); Tamatori no Ama (玉取の蜑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/16
Print Date: 07/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum