SUDA NO HARU GEISHA KATAGI
(隅田春妓女容性)

aka UME NO YOSHIBÊ (梅の由兵衛)
aka MUKAE KAGO (迎駕篭)
aka KOUME YOSHIBÊ (小梅由兵衛)
aka GONZONJI UME NO YOSHIBÊ (御存梅の由兵衛)

Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Koume (小梅)
 
Play: Mukae Kago [Koume Yoshibê]
(迎駕篭 [小梅由兵衛])
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

  Arashi Kichisaburô VI ( 嵐吉三郎) as
  Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)
 
  Play: Mukae Kago [Koume Yoshibê]
  (迎駕篭 [小梅由兵衛])
  Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 11/05/18
  Print Date: 11/1918?
  Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
  (歌川国貞)
  Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
  Personal Collection

Plays: Kachidoki Mibae Genji (勝閧*源氏); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); 
Matsudaira Chôshichirô (平長七郎);  Onhashira (御柱); Gozonji Ume no Yoshibê (御存梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/05/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Kachidoki Mibae Genji (勝閧*源氏); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); 
Matsudaira Chôshichirô (平長七郎);  Onhashira (御柱); Gozonji Ume no Yoshibê (御存梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/05/21
Print Date: 10/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

            
Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play:  Go Sanji Ume no Yoshibê
(御存梅由兵衞)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/24
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed
this role at the Hôgaku-za in April
1925.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects
that performance.
 
 

                       
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
        Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

        Play: Go Sanji Ume no Yoshibê (御存梅由兵衞)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 05/09/1924
        Print Date: 05/1924?
        Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
        Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
        Medium: Lithograph
        Personal Collection

        Note: Kichiemon I also performed the role of Ume no
        Yoshibê at the  Hôgaku-za in April 1925.   I
        cannot rule out the possibility that this print reflects
        Kichiemon I's April 1925 performance
 
 
.

Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛物)
[Spring of Suda] Suda no Haru (隅田の春)

Play: Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi (隅田春妓女容性)
Print Date: 1939
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
Note: See the Undated Print for a related design.
 
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play: Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play:  [Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)?]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Waseda University has a photograph from a production of
Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛) at the Dotonbori Bunraku-za
(Asahi) in Osaka in January 1958 where Kataoa Nizaemon VIII [sic]
portrayed Ume no Yoshibê.  This was classified as a shinkô geki
(emerging theater, not kabuki theater) production.  Kabukidb.net
confirms the existence of such a production but omits the name
of the actor playing Ume no Yoshibê, although it indicates that
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII appeared in other plays on the same bill.
As this production was performed almost after this print was
made, one wonders if there was an earlier production
somewhere in Tokyo made difficult to locate because it was
not, strictly speaking, a kabuki play?
 

                 
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛物)

Play: Suda no Haru Geisha Katagi
(隅田春妓女容性)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: A related design was produced
in the 1938-1939 time period.