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
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助)  as Senoo Jûrô (瀬尾十郎) and Ichikawa
Kuzô IV (市川九蔵) as Aoi Gozen (葵御前) in Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧).  The other figure
is as yet unidentified.
 
 

                 
 
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
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Chônosuke III (沢村長之助; 澤村長之助) in an
unknown role.

 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:  Tsutae Kiku Date no Hyôjô
(傳聞伊達大評定); Ibaraki (茨木); Sakuratsuba
Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘);
Nakazô Kyôran (仲蔵狂乱); Shikan Yakko
(芝翫奴)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/24/17
Print Date: 09/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Hozuki Books
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Ibaraki (茨木) in Ibaraki (茨木)
and another actor in an unknown role.
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻)
 
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: 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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Iruka Daijin (入鹿大臣),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Fukashichi (鱶七), and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Omiwa (三輪; おみわ) in Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); and Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) in unknown roles.

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻) 
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as O-Rin (お臨)
 
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?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kôno Rokurô Michiari
(河野六郎通有), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?, and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Hôjô Sagam-no-Kami Tokimune (北條相模守時宗) in Kamikaze (神風).
 
 
 

               
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

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)
       
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: 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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei Tarô (天明太郎) in
Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染) and  Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛 実ハ大伴黒主) in Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To (浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in
Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).