KANJINCHÔ
(勧進帳)



DECEMBER  1891               



 
Song: Oppekepe (おっぺけぺー)
Print Date: 12/1891
Artist: Utagawa Kokunimasa
Medium Woodblock prints omacha-e
Personal Collection
 
Note: The top right panel is a parody of Kanjinchô (勧進帳) with monkeys.
 
 
 

       

               

1901



Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1901
Artist: Migata Toshide (右田年英)
Series: Eighteen Honorable Acts] Meiyô Jûhachiban (姪用十八番)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

 

JUNE 1911

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 06/18/11
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠) (1911)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e published in
Gendai Gashû (現代畫集) (June 18, 1911)
Personal Collection
 
 




APRIL 1914

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 04/1914
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 4 (April 1914)  and may have been issued
separately as a stand-alone print around the same time. 
Itwas also published as part of a complete set in January
1916.  A copy of the Engei Gahô version is in the Karl
collection.
 
 
  
 

1917

               
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

FEBRUARY 1918

               
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 12, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1918)
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




 
           


20. Kanjinchô (勸進帳; 勧進帳)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?

                     

OCTOBER 1924

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/05/24
Print Date: 11/01/24
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. 11 (Nov. 1, 1924)
Personal Collection
 
 




JANUARY 1925

               
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
 




                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII also performed the role at the Teikoku
Gekijô in January 1925 and April 1927.  I cannot rule out
the possibility that this print reflects one of those
performances.  Sadanji II, however, did not appear in
those productions, so if Hanayama's prints of  Kôshirô VII
and Sadanji II are from the same production of Kanjinchô,
it would have been the March 1925 production at the
Kabuki-za.



               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play:  Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II also performed the role at the Kabuki-za in
February 1926 and February 1928, and at the Teikoku Gekijô
in June 1929.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects one of those  performances.  Kôshirô VII, however,
did not appear in those productions, so if Hanayama's prints
of  Kôshirô VII and Sadanji II are from the same production
of Kanjinchô, it would have been the March 1925 production
at the Kabuki-za.



               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)  as
Musashibô Benkei
武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次)
as Togashi Saemon
(富樫左衛門)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
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 
 
 
 

1925-1926

               
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳; 勸進帳)
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
 





JANUARY 1927


Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶)
   
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 09/21/27
Series: Kyōgen-Dukushi
(狂言づくし)
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: The artist is possibly
Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠).
 
 
 

               

JUNE 1927

   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
[depicted on a oshi-e hagoita
(押繪 羽子板) [raised cloth battledore]]

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 06/10/27
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: [Toys in Tokyo/Teething Ring]
Oshaburi (おしゃぶり)
Medium: Woodblock printed book
illustration (close-up view)
Personal Collection
 
 
 



APRIL 1931

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection

 


Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 


c. 1932-33




Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: Nagauta (長唄)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 



              

1935

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and  Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門) 
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1935
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther 

Note:  The actor portraying Benkei is possibly Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎), who Kawanishi is known to have
seen perform in Osaka, and for whom Benkei was a
signature role,
 
 
 
 




1936

                   
Cover for Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
[Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)]

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 



                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Personal Collection



                   
Cover for Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
[Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)]

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection



                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Miyake Kôhaku (三宅凰白)
Series: Kohaku Kabuki-e (凰白歌舞伎絵)
Medium: Machine printed
Personal Collection

Note:  The official title for this print is
"Dôgyô Kanjinchô (童形勧進帳)."
 
 
 



1938-1940

                 
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

 

1941

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳; 勸進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 





1941 or 1942

                   
[Makeup of Benkei] Benkei no Kuma (辨慶ノ隈).

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1941 or 1942
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Zoku Kumadori Jûhachiban (続隈取十八番)
Image courtesy of the National Museum of Tokyo

Note: This was the makeup devised by [Ichikawa]
Saigyû Danjûrô I (才牛団十郎).  A color image is
not available at this time.
 





SEPTEMBER 1942

                   
Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
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
 
 


DECEMBER 1950




Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  A panel by Kubota follows. 
 
 
 
 


           
           

                       



                   
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳), Panel 4 of
Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Kubota Kinsen (久保田金僊)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection



UNKNOWN MONTH 1950




                 
February (2月): Benkei (弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
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 1952

               
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 01/01/52
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 1, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection (#114)




1954


 Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Date: 1954
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎) (1954)
Series: [Woodblock Prings of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 1
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

 







1963

                   
["Kan-jin-cho" B] Kanjinchô (B) (勧進帳 (B));
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
 
 




                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 20)




1964

                   
["Kan-jin-cho"] Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1964
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Harvard Art Museums
 
 




                   
["Kan-jin-cho"] Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1964
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art




1966

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1966
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. ?)
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery

Note: This print is similar to a version printed in 1963.
 
 




1967

                   
[Questions & Answers] Mondô (問答)
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available. 
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.
 
 




                   
Kanjinchô (C) (勧進帳 (C))
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)





                   
[Flying into Six Directions] Tobi Roppô (飛び六方)
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)




                   
[Withdrawing Back to Six Directions]
Hikkomi Roppô (引込み六方)
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available. 
It is not known at this time if a color version exists.




                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1967
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 100)
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection Tokyo

Note: An artist proof of this design dated 1968 has also
been located.
 
 
 
 



1972

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1972
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 100)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery
 
 
 



1977

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 




                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1977
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com




1981

                   
Roppo (六方)
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)
Image courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 
 
 
 



                   
Roppo (六方)
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)



1982

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1982
Artist: Torii Kiyomitsu (鳥居清光)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 




1984

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1984
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 90)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 




1985

                   
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1985
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 30)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo
 
 




1986

                 
[Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶) and
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)]
Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1986
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Lambsquay Japanese Print Gallery
 
 
 
 

 

1987

                 
Roppô (六法) C
 
Play: Kanjincho (勧進帳)
Print Date: 1987
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 40)
 
 


JANUARY 1991

               
Musashibô Benkei

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: 01/23/91
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #3
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

MAY 2012


Benkei (弁慶) - 1
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Print Date: c. 05/2012
Artist: Kinoshita Daimon (木下大門)
Series:  Ôedo Tenshô (大江戸天翔)
Image courtesy of Kinoshita Daimon
 (木下大門)
 
 
  

       
        Benkei (弁慶) - 2
 
        Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
        Print Date: c. 05/2012
        Artist: Kinoshita Daimon (木下大門)
        Series:  Ôedo Tenshô (大江戸天翔)
        Image courtesy of Kinoshita Daimon
        (木下大門)