YAKKO DÔJÔJI
(奴道成寺)
MARCH 1906
Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Hanako (花子)
Play: Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/06
Print Date: 02/1906?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
Note: The caption of the print is Gaisen (凱旋) -
Triumphant Return. Jûzô IV had just returned
from fighting in the Russo-Japanese War. Two
other plays on the same bill at the Kabuki-za
were "Okuno Kiroku" (陸奥記録) and "Gunjin
Katagi,", two victory-commemorating war
dramas directed by Jûzô IV's adopted father
Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵).
Plays: Oku no Kiroku (陸奥記録); Gunjin Katagi (軍人気質); Yakko Dôdôji
(奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/06
Print Date: 03/09/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Izumi no
Saburô Tadahira (泉三郎忠衡),
Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Okugata Kureha (奥方呉羽), and
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経),in Oku no Kiroku (陸奥記録).
Plays: Shinrei Sugawara Michizane-ki (神霊菅原道実記); Yakko Dôdôji
(奴道成寺);
Some Moyô Konomi no Soroi-gi (染模様御好揃着); Yome Odoshi Dani (嫁おどし谷);
Misao Sanbasô (操三番叟); Shinkyoku Urashima (新曲浦島); Sannin Ishibashi
(三人石橋)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/08
Print Date: 06/06/1908
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
MARCH 1918
Plays: Katakiuchi Shiraishi Banashi (敵討白石噺); Ômi Genji Senjin
Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/18
Print Date: 03/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sasaki
Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Bimyô (微妙) in Ômi Genji Senjin
Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); and
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺清心) in Sato no
Harugi Azami Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫).
OCTOBER 1922
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Shirabyôshi Sakurako jitsu ha Kyôgen-shi Sakon (白拍子桜子 実ハ狂言師左近)
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no
Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Yaegiri of the Hagino
Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐) in Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥);
Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rônin Gotô Genjirô (浪人後藤源次郎) and Sawamura
Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Rônin Isogai Kazuma (浪人磯貝數馬) in Shinnyo (真如); and Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)
as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami
(石見) in Nagamachi
On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切).