SONO MUKASHI KOI NO EDO-ZOME
(其往昔戀江戸染)

aka SHÔCHIKUBAI YUKI NO AKEBONO (松竹梅雪曙)
aka SHÔCHIKUBAI YUSHIMA NO KAKEGAKU (松竹梅湯島掛額)
aka YUSHIMA NO KAKEGAKU (湯島掛額)
aka YAGURA NO OSHICHI (櫓のお七)
aka YAOYA OSHICHI (八百屋お七)
aka DATE MUSUME KOI NO HIGANOKO (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
 

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

            
            Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
            Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
           
            Play: Shôchikubai Yuki no Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
            Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/1912
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例寿曽我); Shinagawa no Daiba (品川の台場); Fudô (不動);
Ittô Ryû Narita no Kakegaku (一刀流成田掛額); Shôchikubai Yuki Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/12
Print Date: 01/1912
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kankô (菅公);  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Wankyu Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山); Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/13
Print Date: 02/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Hinazuru Sanbasô (雛鶴三番叟); Hikô Geigi (飛行藝妓); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記);
Iden (遺傳); Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ten'ichibô Ôoka Seidan (天一坊大岡政談); Nani Ôshima Homare no Tsuyoyumi
(名大島功譽強弓); Shôchikubai Yuki no Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/03/18
Print Date: 12/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)

Play:  Oshichi (おしち)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/04/22
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#26)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)

Play: Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04//1926
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Note: During the time that Shikô 
was active, Fukusuke V also
performed this role in Kichisama
Mairu Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信) at the Shintomi-
za in January 1923, and in Oshichi
Kichisa (お七吉三) at the Hongô-
za in May 1924.  This print could
depict one of those performances.
However, this design was
reproduced as a frontispiece in a
May 1926 issue of Engei to Eiga,
making it like that it depicts the
February 1926 performance, and
is similar to production photos
from that production.
 
 
 
 

           
            [Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
            Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
            Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
            [Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
            (直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
            尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
            Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
            Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
            Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
            Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

            Print Date: c. 1920s
            Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)

            Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
            stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
            by Shikô in the 1920s. 
 

                    
Plays:  Hosokawa Chi Daruma (細川血達摩); Imoseyama Michiyuki (妹背山道行);
Honganji Engi (本願寺縁起); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Horikawa Youchi (堀河夜討);
Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門); Katsudô Kyô Jidai (活動狂時代);
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?]
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 

                   
[Puppet Show at the Bunrakuza Theater
("Oshichi, the Greengrocer's Daughter")] 
Bungakuza Ningyô Geki (Yaoya Oshichi no Butaimen)
(文楽座人形劇 (八百屋お七の舞台面))

Play: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Bunraku-za Puppet Theater
(文楽座人形劇), Osaka
Performance Date: 1928?
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Play:  Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
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: Gidayû Bushi (義太夫節)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Ningyô Furi Oshichi (人形振お七)

Play:   Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Print Date: 11/01/43
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine cover
Publication: [Japanese Dance]
Nihon Buyô (⽇本舞踊) Vols. 74-75 (Nov. 1, 1943)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector
 
 
 
      

Kataoka Roen V (片岡芦燕) as 
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
           
Play: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko
(伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1948
Print Date: 10/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com
 
 
 
 

                   
[Bunraku Puppet ] Bunraku Ningyô (文楽人形): Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
 
Play: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一)
*Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 

                   
Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)

Play: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #2
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                 
[Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)]  Hongô (本郷)
 
Play: Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子)
Print Date: 2003
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo