SHIRAISHI BANASHI
(記白石噺)

aka GO TAIHEIKI SHIRAISHI BANASHI (碁太平記白石噺)
aka KATAKIUCHI SHIRAISHI BANASHI (敵討白石噺)

                 
Plays:  Jiraiya Gonichi Monogatari (児雷也後日物語); Wada Gassen Onna Maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴);
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (奥州白石噺); Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/31/04
Print Date: 01/03/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Hangaku (板額) in Wada Gassen Onna
Maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴) and Jiraiya (児雷也) in Jiraiya Gonichi Monogatari (児雷也後日物語).
 

                 
 
Play: Ume Yanagi Sakura no Kagazome (梅柳桜幸染); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺);
Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡); Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/09
Print Date: 02/27/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Iwafuji no Bôrei (岩藤の亡霊) in Ume Yanagi
Sakura no Kagazome (梅柳桜幸染).  The other two figures are unidentified.

               
[Memorial Performances at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Tsuizen Engeki (歌舞伎座の追善演劇)

Plays: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/09
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 104 (Mar. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: While it is unclear in whose memory the performances were
for, the plays at the Kabuki-za in February were Go Taiheiki Shiraishi
Banashi (碁太平記白石 噺); Kagamiyama Gonichi no Iwafuji
(加賀見山再岩藤); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡); and
Jûni Hitoe Komachi Zakura (重重人重小町桜).
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子) as Daikokuya Sôkichi (大黒屋惣吉)/Sôroku (惣六)
   
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助) as Shinobu (しのぶ)
 
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as Miyagino (ミやぎの)
 
Play: Shiraishi Banashi Ageya (白石咄揚屋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: While this is a mitate-e, these three actors performed their roles at the Tokyo-za in Tokyo on
January 1, 1904.  
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Tenjiku Tokubê  (天竺徳兵衞); Osaru (おさる); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺);
Uri Hitotsu (瓜一つ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/14
Print Date: 07/1914?
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 Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛) in Tenjiku Tokubê
(天竺徳兵衛) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yosoji (與惣治) in Osaru (おさる).
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Katakiuchi Shiraishi Banashi (敵討白石噺); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/18
Print Date: 03/1918?
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 Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)
and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Bimyô (微妙) in Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); and
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺清心) in Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫).
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Shinobu (信夫)
 
Plays: Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺); Noriaibune (浄瑠璃乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yahê (弥兵衛) and  Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Okô (お幸) in Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌)
as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶), and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
in Kanjinchô (勸進帳).
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Kaikai no Jyokotoba (開會の序詞); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略絵巻);
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); Takatoki (高時); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛); Ehon Taikôki  (繪本太閤記); Modoribashi (戻橋); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/28-30/21
Print Date: 12/1921?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);  Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石 噺); Gishimeimeiden (義士銘々伝 ); Sanjû Sanjo Tsubosakadera (三十三所壷坂寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/03/26
Print Date: 08/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 

                    
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Shinobu (信夫)
 
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎)
and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (かさね) in Kasane Monogatari (累物語).
 
 
 

? as Miyagino (宮城野)

Play: Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺);
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection