UNKNOWN ARTIST
1902
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as ?
? as [Musicians]
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)
Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as [Puppeteer] Ningyôtsukai (人形遣)
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 03/27/02
Nakamura Naritarô I
(中村成太郎) as
Kamei Rokurô (亀井六郎)
Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Shinchû Nagon Tomomori
(新中納言知盛)
Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助 as
Ni-i Ama (二位尼)
Ichikawa Botan II (市川ほたん)
as Kiyowaka-kun (清若君)
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I
(市川権十郎; 市川權十郎) as
Minamotono Yoshitsune
(源義経)
Ichikawa Arajirô I (市川荒次郎)
as Benkei (弁慶)
Sadenji (左伝次) as
Kataoka Hachirô (片岡八郎)
Play: Ikari Tomomori (碇知盛)
Performance Place: Meiji-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/15/02
Print Date: 04/05/02
Image courtesy of the
Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
Note: There is print by Kunisada
III of this production, suggesting
that he may have been the artist
of this print.
Plays: Kamakurayama Haru no Asahina (鎌倉山春朝比奈); Honchô
Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
Kogane no Shachihoko Uwasa no Takanami (金鯱噂高浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/09/02
Print Date: 01/11/02
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Plays: Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Hanabusa
Shishi (英獅子);
Fukitori Tsuma (吹取妻); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);
Obi no Ayakatsura no Mizu (帯文桂川水)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/27/02
Print Date: 03/28/02
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎)
as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Senzaki Yagorô {千崎弥五郎)
Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵)
as Yoichibê (与一兵衛)
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
Play: Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/09/02
Image Courtesy of the
Ako City Museum of History
Note: I can find no record of
this cast performing together
in Tokyo in this play. It likely
reflects a performance
outside of Tokyo.
Plays: Motomezuka Migaeri Nitta (求女塚身替新田); Kumo no Furumai
(新作蛛振舞);
Aoi no Ue Tegara no Kumadori (葵上功隈取); Yamanba (山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/17/02
Print Date: 05/18/02
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
OCTOBER
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智滝祈誓文覚); Hirakana
Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記);
Ninjô Banashi Bunshichi Mottoi (人情噺文七元結); Kokkei Niwaka Ataka
(滑稽俄安宅新関)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/11/02
Print Date: 10/12/02
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
NOVEMBER
Plays: Satomi Hakkenden (里見八犬伝); Kanadehon Chûshingura (忠臣講釈);
Takatoki (高時);
Enoshima Sodachi Neoi no Chigogiku (江島育根生児菊); Setsugekka
Mitsugumi no Sakazuki
(雪月花三組杯觴)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/02
Print Date: 11/14/02
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
UNKNOWN MONTHS
Play: Setchūkōgun (雪中行軍)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1902
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
Note: The image is too small to make out the actors' names and
other print details. There were
three different productions of Setchūkōgun in Tokyo in 1902, as
well as several mountings in
Kyoto and Osaka.
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎 ; 市川團十郎) as Jiraiya (児雷也)
Ichikawa Yonejûrô IV (市川米五郎) as Yumechokichi (夢蝶吉)
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as Tag0to-hime (田毎姫)
Ichikawa Sadanji I ( 市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Orochimaru (大蛇丸)
Nakamura Fukusuke III (中村福助) as Amide (網手)
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Takasago Yûminosuke (高砂勇美三郎)
Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1902
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
Note: I have not been able to locate a Tokyo performance of
Jiraiya with this cast. Several
cast members, however, appear in prints by Kunisada III and
Kunichika circa 1884-1885.
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村雁次; 郎中村鴈治郎) as
Gorô Tokimune (五郎時宗)
Arashi Ganshô I (嵐巌笑) as Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成)
Onoe Taminosuke (尾上多見之助) as Toragozen (虎御前)
Play: Youchi Soga (夜討曽我)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1902
Image courtesy of the
Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
Note: Stylistically, this looks like the early work of Hasegawa
Sadanobu III.