FUJI MUSUME
(藤娘)

aka KAESU GAESU ONAGORI NO ÔTSUE (哥へす哥へす余波大津繪)




JANUARY 1913



Title: Jidai Bijin Fûzoku Sugoroku (時代 美人 風俗 双六) 
Print Date:  01/1913
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Publication: Appendix to Bungei Kurabu (文芸倶楽部)
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
 
Note: Plays depicted include Fuji Musume (藤娘), Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉),
and some Oshichi-mono.
 
 

1920

                   
[The Wisteria Maiden]  Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Kusunose Nichinen (一楠瀬日年)
Series; Ôtsu-e Zuchô (大津絵図帖)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 




                   
[[The Wisteria Maiden]  Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1920
Artist: Kusunose Nichinen (一楠瀬日年)
Series; Ôtsu-e Zuchô (大津絵図帖)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 


c. 1938 - 1940

                 
Fuji Musume (ふじ娘) Otsu-e (大津絵)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: c. 1938-1940
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

JUNE 1941


[Wisteria Maiden] Fuji Musume (藤娘)
       
Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)  
Print Date: 06/1941
Artist: Asahi Masahide (旭正秀)
Series: [Calendar Prints by Important
Sosaku Hanga Artists]
Nihon Hanga Kyôkai Karendâ
(日本版画協会カレンダー)
Personal Collection
 
 
       

SEPTEMBER 1942

                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 09/27/42
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Tsuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 月の巻)
Personal Collection
 


APRIL 1943

               
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place:
Performance Date:
Print Date: 04/1943
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Buyo no Maki (舞踊の巻) [Dance Collection]
Personal Collection

 
 

APRIL 1948

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play:  Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/48
Print Date: 1949
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Kikugorô Buyo Sugata [Kikugorô’s Dance Appearances]
(菊五郎舞踊姿)
Personal Collection

Note:  Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Fuji Musueme in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in March 1937. and subsequently reprised
the role at the Kabuki-za in May 1939, January 1942, January 1943,
and October 1943,  and at the Tokyo Gekijô in February 1947. 
He gave his final performance in the role at the Kabuki-za in
Osaka in March 1949.  It is possible that this print depicts
Kikugorô VI in one of these other productions.
 
 
 

1950

                 
March (3月): Ôtsu-e Fuji Musume (大津絵 藤娘)

Play: Kaesu Gaesu Onagori no Ôtsue
(哥へす哥へす余波大津繪)
Print Date: 1950
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: [Calendar of Kabuki Actors] Kabuki Sugata-goyomi
(歌舞伎姿暦)
^Personal Collection



JANUARY

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#12)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 


JANUARY 1955

                 
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Toyko
Performance Date: 01/1955
Print Date: c. 1970s
Artist: Hasegawa Noboru (長谷川昇)
Personal Collection (#47/100)
 
 

JANUARY 1959


Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play:  Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Date: 1959
Artist: Kitano Tsunetomi (北野恒富)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

1963

                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Higuchi Tomimaro (樋口富麻呂)
Series: [Bunraku Doll Print Collection]
Bunraku Ningyô Hanga-shû (文楽人形版画集)
Personal Collection

Note: This appears to be the only design by Higuchi Tomimaro in this
series.  The others were designed by Hasegawa Konobu IV and Hanabusa
Hideki.
 
 
 

1976

               
Fuji (藤)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Al Hirschfeld
Series: Kabuki
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection (#159/275)



                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Clifton Karhu

Note: The dealer said the title
was "All Woman."
 
 

1979

                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1979
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 30)



1985

                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: 1985
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
 


FEBRUARY 1996

                 
Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門)  as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/96?
Print Date: 02-03/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Jakuemon - Fuji Musume (雀右衛門 - 藤娘)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#28/100)

Note:  Since Jakuemon IV also performed this role at the
Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in June 1995, it is possible that Binnie
used that performance for his print instead of the one at
the Kabuki-za in February 1996.
 
 

UNKNOWN DATES

                   
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 




Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: Unknown
Artist: Takahashi Shôzan IV (髙橋宏光)
Personal Collection

               


Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Shôzan IV (髙橋宏光)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 
 

               



[Wisteria Maiden] Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
Image courtesy of Myjapansehanga.com
 
 
 
 


               


Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
Dance: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô
(山川秀峰)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochikuburo
Series: [Ten Aspects of Dance]
Buyô Jyû-shû no Uchi
(舞踊十種之内)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

               

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection

Note: Shikan VII performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in February 1978 and April 1983, at the Asakusa Kôkaidô
in February 1984, at the Kabuki-za in September 1985, at
the Shinbashi Enbujô in June 1993, and at the Kabuki-za in
November 1994, September 2001, March 2004, and October
2008.
 
 


[Pantheon of Otsu-e]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Takeuchi Keishu (武内桂舟)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Among the figures is The Wisteria Maiden, Fuji Musume (藤娘).
 

               
                Fuji Musume (藤娘)
 
                Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
                Print Date: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                pochibukuro
                Series:  **** Omokage (****面影)
                Personal Collection

               
                Fuji Musume (藤娘)

                Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
                Print Date: ?
                Image courtesy of Artelino.com