KICHISAMA MAIRU YUKARI NO OTOZURE
(吉様参由縁音信)

aka YUKANBA KICHISA (湯灌場吉三)
aka KOBORI SEIDAN (小堀政談)
aka TENNINKÔ (天人香)
aka BENSHÛ (弁秀)
 
 

 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kichisa (吉三)

Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari no
Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date:  1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors
of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #4
Personal Collection

           
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
            as Benshû (弁秀) .

            Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari no
            Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/10/25
            Print Date:  1928?
            Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
            (神下周峯)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Series: [Images of Famous Actors
            of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
            Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #4
            Personal Collection

                 
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Oshichi (お七)

Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 09/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
Note: Eizaburô VII also played Oshichi in a production of
Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三) at the Hôgaku-za, Tokyo, in
December 1924.  I cannot rule out the possibility
that this print reflects Eizaburô VII's December 1924
performance.
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kichisa (吉三)
 
? as ?
 
Plays: Ayatsuri Sanbasô (あやつり三番叟);
Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記);
Kichisama Mairu Yukari no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 09/10/25
Artist:: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon
I (中村吉右衛門) as Sendô Matsuemon (船頭松右衛門),
in actuality, Higuchi Jirô (桶口次郎) in Hirakana
Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); and Bandô Hikosaburô VI
(坂東彦三郎) as Okina (翁) and  Bandô Mitsugorô VII
(坂東三津五郎) as Sanbasô (三番叟) in Ayatsuri
Sanbasô (あやつり三番叟).