UIRÔ URI
(外郎売)

aka UIRÔ (ういろう)

[Costume Competition Sugoroku] Ishô Kei Nigao Sugoroku (衣裳競似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/21/11
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

            
            3. Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
            Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)
                       
            Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
            Print Date: 10/21/11
            Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
 
 
 
 

                 
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 11 (Nov. 1914) and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916
 
 
 
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Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Uirô Uri (外郎売)/Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Play: Uirô (ういろう) [Uirô Uri (外郎売)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/22
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#15)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Yuki no Yûbe (雪の夕); Ike (池); Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku (太平記忠臣講釈); Uirô (ういらう)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/05/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 12/01/53
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 3, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection (#114)
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Chûsha VIII (市川中車) as
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉), in reality,
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Play:  Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1958
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)

Note: I can find no record of Chûsha VIII
performing this role in Tokyo.
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Soga no Gorô (曽我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/85
Print Date: 10/1985
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, A Selection of Six Aragoto Characters -
the Name-Taking Ceremony of Ichikawa Danjûrô XII]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
Jûni-daime Ichikawa Danjûrô Shûmei Hirô Aragoto Roku-sen
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・
十二代目市川團十郎襲名披露　荒事六選)
Personal Collection  (#25/54)
 
 
 
 

               
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: 04/23/1990
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #1
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 8-25, 1996
Print Date: 1996
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Uirô Uri (外郎売),
Sushiya (すし屋) [Act III, Scene III of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)], Tenaraiko (手習子), Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋)
[Act III, Scene III of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)],
and Sagi Musume (鷺娘). It starred Ichikawa Danjûrô XII
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎), Onoe Kikugorô VII
(尾上菊五郎), Kawarasaki Gonjûrô III (河原崎権十郎;
 河原崎權十郎), Sawamura Tôjûrô II (沢村藤十郎;
澤村藤十郎), Nakamura Shibajaku VII (中村芝雀),
Ichimura Kakitsu IX (市村家橘), Ichikawa Unosuke III
(市川右之助), Kataoka Jûzô VI (片岡十蔵), and Ichikawa
Shinnosuke (市川新之助).
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII (市川新之助) as
Soga no Gorô (曽我五郎)

Play: Uirô (外郎売)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/98
Print Date: 07/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Full Length Portraits - Series XII (Design 3)]
Daijûni-ki Zenshin-zu Shirîzu no 3
(第十二期 全身図シリーズの3)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売; ういろう )
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 
 
 

                 
Toraya Tôkichi
(虎屋東吉)/
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune '
(鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

       
        Ichikawa Danjirô IX or XI
        (市川団次郎; 市川團次郎) as
        Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
        Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)
 
        Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: ?
        Personal Collection

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

       
        Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
        Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

        Play: Uirô Uri (外郎売)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?