YAMANBA
(山姥)

                
[Mountain Crone]  Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 08/20/98
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#100]
*Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 

 

Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵) as
Sanshô Mitashi  (山樵三田仕)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/17/02
Print Date: 1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Personal Collection
 

Onoe Ushinosuke II (尾上丑之助) as
Kaidômaru  (怪童丸)

Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) and
Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) and
Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎)
as Yamanba (山姥)
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Ichikawa Somegorô IV (市川染五郎) as
Yamanba (山姥)  [bottom of print]
 
Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/17/02
Print Date: 1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Personal Collection

           
             Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘) as
            Yamanba (山姥) [intermediate flap]
 
            Play: Yamanba (山姥)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/17/02
            Print Date: 1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Personal Collection

           
            Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
            Yamanba (山姥) [top flap]
 
            Play: Yamanba (山姥)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/17/02
            Print Date: 1902
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                
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
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as Yorimitsu-kô  (頼光公) in Kumo no Furumai
(新作蛛振舞).  The other figure is as-yet unidentified.
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yamanba (山姥)
 
Plays: Chôchidori Ehon Manzai (蝶千鳥惠方入船); Emitsu no Hatsu Koi (家光の初戀);
Shosagoto Yamanba (所作事山姥); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The play roles of Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎),  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸),
and   Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) are as yet unidentified.
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yamanba (山姥)
Matsumoto Kintarô I (松本金太郎) as Kaidômaru (怪童丸)        
 
Play: Shosagoto Yamanba (所作事山姥)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/15
Print Date: 02/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 9, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1915)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

                
[Mountain Crone] Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: c. 1920
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Nô Pictures] Nôga (能画)
 


 

                
[Mountain Crone] Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 11/1924
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#53]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University
 


 

                 

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #74
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Kanze school. Shirogashira: White wig. Kasezue: Wooden cane with a sideways grip on the top.
Leaves are attached. When using shirogashira, natural wood is used. Shikishi: Front shikishi depicts
the pattern of chûkei (fan) for Yamanba in Kanze school. Back shikishi depicts the landscape of one
mountain after another.
 
 

                
[Mountain Crone] Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 07/05/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures]
Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 2, #25
*Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 

                 
Kaidômaru (怪童丸)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 11/15/25
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎 隈取百面種), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
Kaidômaru Make-up ( 怪童丸の隈)

Role: Kaidômaru (怪童丸)
Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 12
Personal Collection
 
 

Play: Yamanba ((山姥)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Tokiwazu Bushi (常磐津節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Date: 1933
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson
 
 
                     
         

                   
[Mountain Witch] Yamanba (山姥)
 
Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 06/1938
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風)
Series: [Fifty Noh Figures in Color]
Nô Sugata Gojyû Irodori (能姿五十彩) No. 44
Image courtesy of the Art Resource Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
 
 

                 
[Mountain Crone]  Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 01/1955
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: Noh Play Explanation and Stories Series 1
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                 
[Mountain Witch] Yamanba (山姥)

Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風)
Series: Nômen Tokushû (能面特輯)
Personal Collection

[Mountain Crone] Yamanba (山姥)
 
Play: [Mountain Crone] Yamanba (山姥)
Date: ?
Artist: Terada Akitoyo (寺田秋豊)
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson