Toki-ha Ima Kikyo no Hataage (時今也桔梗籏揚) aka Toki-mo Kikyo Shusse no Ukejo (時桔梗出世請状) aka Kikyo no Hataage (桔梗旗揚) aka Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀) aka Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Tsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)

TOKI-HA IMA KIKYÔ NO HATAAGE
(時今也桔梗籏揚)

aka TOKI-MO KIKYÔ SHUSSE NO UKEJÔ (時桔梗出世請状)
aka TOKI-HA IMA AMAGASHITA SHIRU TSUKI KANA (時今天下知皐哉)
aka KIKYÔ NO HATAAGE (桔梗旗揚)
aka BADARAI NO MITSUHIDE (馬盥の光秀)

JULY 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru
Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Plays: Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Tsuki
Kana (時今天下知皐哉); Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji (指物師名人長治);
Utatoku Megumi no Amagoi (歌徳惠雨乞)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Hozuki Books

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji
(指物師名人長治) in Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji
(指物師名人長治).

OCTOBER 1918

Ichikawa Chùsha VII (市川中車) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
(時今也桔梗旗揚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/29/18
Print Date: 10/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Oda Harunaga (小田春永)

            Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
            (時今也桔梗旗揚)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/29/18
            Print Date: 10/1918?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Print Date: 1918/10?
            Personal Collection

APRIL 1921

Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

                10. Takechi Mitsuhide
                (武智光秀)
                Artist: ?

SEPTEMBER 1922

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀), Act II of
Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage (時今也桔梗籏揚)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
Performance Date: 09/1922
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画春仙似顔集) (#1)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also played this role in a production of
Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
at the Ichimura-za in July 1917. In fact, this print strongly
resembles a production photograph from that production.
Consequently, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this
print on that earlier performance.

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
(時桔梗出世請状)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
Performance Date: 09/1922
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed this role
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1927.
I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.

JUNE 1924

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage (時今也桔梗旗揚)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 06/1924
Print Date: 07/01/24
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 3, No. 7 (July 1, 1924)
Personal Collection

c. 1925-1926

Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1925-1926
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Hyakumenshû
(歌舞伎隈取百面種), Vol. ?
Personal Collection

Note: It is unclear if this is the make-up for
Takechi Mitsuhide in Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no
Hataage (時今也桔梗旗揚), Ehon Taikôki
(繪本太功記; 絵本大功記), or both.

FEBRUARY 1927

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
(時今也桔梗旗揚)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
1-shû (舞台絵巻第1集)
Personal Collection

                    Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
                    Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

                    Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
                    ( 時今也桔梗旗揚)
                    Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô,Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 02/04/27
                    Print Date: 02/1927?
                    Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
                    Medium: Lithograph
                    Personal Collection

                    Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed Mitsuhide in a
                    production of Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
                    (時桔梗出世請状) at the Yokohama-za in September
                    1922. I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
                    reflects that performance.

APRIL 1950

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀)
Performance Place: Tôkyô Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1950
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: [Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー) [May]
Medium: Colored woodblock print, possibly with hand-applied color on verso
Personal Collection

MAY 1997

Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as
Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月)

Play: Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/97
Print Date: 07/1997
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits XI (Design 8)]
Daijûichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第十一期大首絵シリーズの8)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Reminiscences II (思い出 II)

Print Date: 01/2000
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
Personal Collection (#14/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed. Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy. This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
2. Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as Hannyo (斑女) in
Sumidagawa (隅田川), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1981).
3. Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (11/1980).
4. Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo (10/04/1986).
5. Nakamura Kanzaburô XVlI (中村勘三郎) as Danjô Imôto Yashio (弾正妹八汐) in
Sendai Hagi (先代萩), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/01/1983)
6. Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎) in
Shisenryô (四千両), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1983).
7. Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as Yûjo Okaru (遊女おかる) in
Gion Ichiriki Jaya (祇園一力茶屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1988).
8. Jitsukawa Enjaku III (實川延若) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作) in
Nozakimura (野崎村), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/1989).
9. Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1995).
10. Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Matsuômaru (松王丸) in
Terakoya (寺子屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/02/1997).
11. Sawamura Tanosuke VI (澤村田之助) as Mitsuhide Tsuma Satsuki (光秀妻皐月) in
Kikyô no Hataage (桔梗旗揚), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1997).
12. Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1996).

UNKNOWN DATES

Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
( 時今也桔梗旗揚)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

        possibly Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

        Play: Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
        (時桔梗出世請状) ?
        Performance Place: Bunraku-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: It is possible that the artist for this
        woodblock print is Saitô Seijirô
        (斎藤清二郎).

            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)
            as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

            Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide
            (馬盥の光秀), Act II of Toki-ha
            Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki
            Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover

            Note: Chûsha VII performed
            this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
            za in October 1918 and at the
            Meiji-za in October 1921.