SAKURATSUBA URAMI NO SAMEZAYA
(櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘)

aka UNAGIDANI (鰻谷)
aka OTSUMA HACHIROBÊ (お妻八郎兵衛)
OTSUMA HACHIROBÊ RYÔGOKU KÔDAN (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談)
aka KANE MOROTOMO URAMI NO SAMEZAYA (鐘もろとも恨鮫鞘)

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Toyotomi Tenshûni (豊臣天秀尼);
Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (桜鍔恨鮫鞘);
Harugeshiki Kumoi no Kyokumari (春景色雲井曲毬)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/10
Print Date: 01/14/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Jitsuroku Sakura Sôgo (実録佐倉宗吾); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki  (檀浦兜軍記);
Takayama Hikokurô  (高山彦九郎); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/09/10
Print Date: 09/12/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

 Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)

Play: Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya
(櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Onoe Taminosuke (尾上多見之助) as
Otsuma (おつま; お妻)

Play: Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya
(櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

Jitsukawa Enjaku II
(実川延若; 實川延若) as
Furuteya Hachirobê (古手屋八郎兵衛)

Play: Kane Morotomo Urami no Samezaya
(鐘もろとも恨鮫鞘),
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note:  Enjaku II I also portrayed
Hachirobê in an August 1926 production
at the Kabuki-za.  Stylistically, however,  
it more closely resembles Seifû's Yakusha-e
prints of 1915 than his later Nigao-e prints.
 
 
 
 

                 
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)

Play: Kane Morotomo Urami no Samezaya
(鐘もろとも恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/15/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II performed this role at the
Hongô-za in Tokyo in February 1916.  It is not
known at this time if he subsequrently
performed this role in Kyoto.
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘);
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/19
Print Date: 11/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                    
Plays: Kamikaze (神風); Momiji no Eneshi no Shirahari (紅葉宴衛士白張);
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談); Mei Ranfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as  
Hachirobê (八郎兵衛)

Play: Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô
Performance Date: 01/1926
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum