Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Ishidô Umanojô (石堂右馬之丞)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ono Kudayû (斧九太夫)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okaru (お軽)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Tabi Sugata Omoi no Kake Ine
(旅姿思掛稲); Tsuyu no Harema Sora ha Sumiyoshi (入梅晴間空住吉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami (石見)
 
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 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) in
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺).
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Fuji No Tsuma Suminoe (富士の妻住の江)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toin Nagazane (洞院長實) '

Plays: Shibaraku (暫); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Fuji Daiko (富士太鼓);
Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:: The cover depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)
and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in
Shibaraku (暫); Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門) in Yûgiri
Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Denbei (傳兵衛)
and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as O-Ume (お梅) in Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕).
 
 

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as  Rokujô Shôshô Tadaaki (六條少将忠顕)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Narita Kosaburô Takashin (成田小三郎尭心)
 
Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年);
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); Modori Kago Iro Koi Aigata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock 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 Mondo (主水) in
Shiraito Mondo (白糸と主水); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka] Kijirô
(吉岡鬼次郎) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Okyô (お京) in Kiichi Hôgen
Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻).
 
 
 

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精)
 
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Saruhashi Uemon (猿橋右門),
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nanao Kinshirô (七尾金四郎), and  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助) in Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka (咲競雪梅香);
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Koshimoto Chidori (腰元千鳥) in Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらがな盛衰記); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mitsunari (三成) in
Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利).
 
 

                    
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nishina Rin'nosuke (仁科林之助)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hebitsukahi Okinu (蛇つかひお絹)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Toyokichi (豊吉) in Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋)
 
Plays: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Ryôgoku no Aki (兩国の秋);
Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ono Komachi (小野小町)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/23
Print Date: 06/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ataka Gôemon (安宅郷右衛門) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôta Ôi (太田大炊) in Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動);  Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱) in Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono Komachi (小野小町). 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osada no Kata (お貞の方)

Play: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/23
Print Date: 07/01/23
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺所化清心)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Izayoi (十六夜)

Play: Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/24
Print Date: 07/01/24
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 3, No. 7 (July 1, 1924)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Izayoi (十六夜)

Play: Izayoi Seishin (十六夜清心)
Performance Place: Hongo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/24
Print Date: 12/01/25
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 12) (三十六家選 (その十二))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: It is possible that it reflects a later regional production.
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Kasane (かさね)
 
Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume-ga-Kagatobi
(盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Iromoyô Chotto Karimame
(色彩間苅豆); Modorikago Iro ni Aikata
(戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/06//24
Print Date: 0706//24
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門) as Tenjinmachi Umekichi
(天神町梅吉),  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Gorôji (五郎次),  Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門)
as Kinnosuke(己之助), Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Takegaki Dôgen (竹垣道玄), and  Bandô
Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Iseya Yohei
(伊勢屋与兵衛) in Mekura Nagaya Ume-ga-Kagatobi
(盲長屋梅加賀鳶).
 
 

                    
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻) 
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as O-Rin (お臨)
 
Plays: Kamikaze (神風); Momiji no Eneshi no Shirahari (紅葉宴衛士白張);
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談); Mei Ranfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kôno Rokurô Michiari
(河野六郎通有), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?, and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Hôjô Sagam-no-Kami Tokimune (北條相模守時宗) in Kamikaze (神風).
 
 
 

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Rokubei (六兵衛)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Takagi Shizuma (高木志津馬)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Muneharu (宗春)
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Masaoka (政岡) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as  Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩). 
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takuemon (武右衛門)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫)
 
Plays: Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);
Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風)               
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/25
Print Date: 01/1925?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yakko-dako (奴凧) in Yakko
Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風); Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勸進帳); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ohan
(お半) in Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵). 
 
 

                                   
                    Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

                    Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
                    Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 01/01/25
                    Print Date: 02/01/25
                    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. 4, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1925)
                    Personal Collection

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Agemaki (揚巻)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/08/25
Print Date: 02/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

Note: The same design was used for an earlier production at
the Kabuki-za in 1915 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.
 

       
        Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
        Agemaki (揚巻)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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) #2
        Personal Collection

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed       
pochibukuro
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

       
        Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
        Otomi (おとみ)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist:  MKamishita 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) #1
        Personal Collection

                             
            Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (おとみ)

            Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
            (与話情浮名横櫛) 
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/25
            Print Date: 04/1925?
            Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
            Medium: Lithograph
            Personal Collection

            Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
            appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
            1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Baikô VI's
            performance in that production.
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸)
as Otomi (お富; おとみ)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô
(切られ与三郎)
 
Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina
no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku
Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 05/23/71
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Yakusha Nigao-e
(役者似顏繪)
Personal Collection
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (お富)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Personal Collection

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精)
 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Ômori
Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/25
Print Date: 04/01/25
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七) in
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)                   
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu
(蝙蝠安) in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸) and
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Umeômaru
(梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑).
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 05/01/25
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 5) (三十六家選 (その五))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 5 (May 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)   
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 05/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Baikô VI also performed this role opposite
Uzaemon XV  in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1926, but this print more closely resembles a
photograph from the 1925 production.
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Sayuri (小百合)

Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
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) (#4)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Sayuri in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1904.  Depending on the precise
publication date of this print, it is possible that Shunsen
modeled this print after one of Baikô VI's performances
at the Teikoku Gekijô in March 1913, April 1918, or
April 1922.
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合)
 
Plays: Ôkurakyô (大蔵卿); Modoribashi (戻橋);
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門); Futaribakama
(二人袴)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/25
Print Date: 06/01/25
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as Sakaida Kakiemon (酒井田柿右衛門)
in Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門); Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Takasago Jôbei  (高砂尉兵衛) in
Futaribakama (二人袴); and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Ōe Hiromiori (大江廣盛),  Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshioka Onijirô (吉岡鬼次郎),
and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一條大蔵卿) in Ôkurakyô (大蔵卿). 
 
 

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上 梅幸) as
Koito (小糸)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
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) #7
Personal Collection

                     
    Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸)

    Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
    (江戸育お祭佐七)
    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
    Performance Date: 07/01/25
    Print Date: 07/1925?
    Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
    Medium: Lithograph
    Personal Collection

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Oiwa-sama (お岩様)

Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 4
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅)
 
Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
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 Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
in Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火); and  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô
(平ノ左衛門尉) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮) in Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人).
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種);
Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記); Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本櫻); Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋); Sono Kouta
Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/25
Print Date: 11/01/25
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十) and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takechi Jûjirô
(武智十次郎) in Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記); and Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon (弥左衛門)
and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yasuke
(弥助) in Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻).
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛 実ハ大伴黒主)
 
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei Tarô (天明太郎) in
Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Furuteya Hachirobei
(古手屋八郎兵衛) in Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shinonome (東雲)
 
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂); Genpei Sakigake
Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅); Inaka Genji Tsuyu no
Shinonome (田舎源氏露東雲); Kurotegumi
Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/26
Print Date: 04/01/266
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rôben Daisôjô
(良辨大僧正) in Nigatsudô (二月堂); Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kazusa (上總) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実) in
Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅); and 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Kurotegumi Sukeroku (黒手組助六) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引).
 
 
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô (生島新五郎)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tatsuma Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛)
 
Plays: Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Sangoku Musô Hisago no Gunpai (三國無双瓢軍配);
Genboku to Chôei (玄朴と長英);  Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/26
Print Date: 06/1926?
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  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺所化清心)
in Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Takano Choei (高野長英) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Genpaku (玄朴) in Genboku to
Chôei (玄朴と長英).
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as ?
 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as  ?
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as ?
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as ?
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Tachiba Taheiji (立場太平次)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Torazô (虎蔵), actually Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)  
      
Plays: Kazumiya-sama Otsukai (和宮様御使); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/26
Print Date: 10/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

            
            Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as
            Michitose (三千歳)
           
            Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai
            (河内山と直侍)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/01/26
            Publication Date: 1927
            Artist: ?

           
 
 
 
 

                                    
                Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (くらやみの丑松)
 
                Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)
 
                Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀)
 
                Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
 
                Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)
 
                Plays: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍); Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚)
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date:  11/01/26
                Print Date: 11/1926?
                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 Toriyama Inuchiyo
                (鳥山犬千代) in Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚).
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (森田勘弥; 守田勘弥) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/26
Print Date: 02/01/28
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashin (演藝寫真), Vol. 2, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1928)
Personal Collection
 
 

Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Koito (小糸)
 
Plays: Yûshoku Kamakura  (有職鎌倉山); Koito Sashichi Honchô Itoya Musume (小糸佐七本町糸屋の娘);
Shakkyô (石橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/05/27
Print Date: 01/1927?
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 Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as [The Spirit of the Parent Lion]
Oya shishi no Sei (親獅子の精) in Shakkyô (石橋); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Sano Hyôe
(佐野兵衛),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Sano Genzaemon (佐野源左衛門), and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Miura Arajirō Yoshizumi (三浦荒次郎義澄) in Yûshoku Kamakura
(有職鎌倉山).
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
as Okaru (おかる)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路花聟) between Acts IV and
V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/27
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
 
 
 
 

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね)
 
Plays: Zenzen Taieiki (前々太平記); Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺); Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Kasane Monogatari (累物語); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶;
武蔵坊弁慶) and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門) in
Kanjinchô (勸進帳); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Shinobu (信夫) in
Shiraishi Banashi (白石噺).
 
 
 

                    
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (お富; おとみ)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
 
Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
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 Saruhiki Fukudayu
(猿曳福太夫) in Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿); and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai
Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実) and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六) in
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記).
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kofuji (小ふじ)
 
Plays:  Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜); Hamamatsu Kaze Koi no Utabito (濱松風戀歌);
Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono  (大杯觴酒戦強者); Shanto Kangen ( 社頭諫言);
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren Shonin (日蓮上人) in
Shanto Kangen ( 社頭諫言); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kawachi no Hara Gorô (河内の原五郎)
and Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Genshichi (源七) in Goemon no Kama (五右衛門の釜);
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天小僧菊之助) in
Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪); and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Baba Sarurobê (馬塲三郎兵衛) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono  (大杯觴酒戦強者).