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Benzaiten (弁才天)[
 
Dragon Diety] Ryûjin (龍神)
 
Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
Print Date: 10/05/99
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#163]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

                
[Dragon Deity] Ryûjin (龍神)

Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
Print Date: 08/1924
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#45]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University
 


 

                
[Dragon Diety] Ryûjin (龍神)
 
Benzaiten (弁才天)

Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
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, #6
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 
 

                   
[Dragon Deity] Ryûjin (龍神)
 
Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
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. 6
Image courtesy of the Art Resource Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
 
 

 
[Dragon God] Ryûjin (龍神)
     
Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: Meikyoku Noh Sugata
(名曲能すがた), Vol. 2
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    [Dragon Diety] Ryûjin  (龍神)
 
    Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
    Date: ?
    Artist: Terada Akitoyo (寺田秋豊)
    Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
 
 
 
 
 

                
[Dragon Deity] Ryûjin (龍神)

Play: Chikubushima  (竹生島)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
of New York
 
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞); Meihitsu Domo no Matahei (名筆吃又平);
Chikubushima (竹生島); Haru no Yoi (春の宵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/14
Print Date: 03/1914?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
(紀國屋文左衛門),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kaiga Saburôbei (貝賀三郎兵衛), 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Otsune (お種), and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shirakoya
Shozaburo (白子屋庄三郎) in Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞).
 
 
 

                 

Play: Chikubushima (竹生島)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #55
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note: Ryû-dai (crown exclusively for dragon god): Aka-gashira (red wig) with dragon headdress for
Nochi-shite. Kinshugyoku (golden jeweled ball) for Nochi-shite. Uchizue: Thin stick, about 60 cm long,
with cross bar at the end. Not represented in print: boat and a pole will be used on the stage. Upper
right circle depicts the scene from poem: "Trees reflect green shadows deeply in the lake, and fish
swimming in the lake appear to be climbing up the trees. The rabbit on the moon jumps on the waves."