Kanjincho (勧進帳)

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
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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
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)
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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. It
was 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

APRIL 1921

Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
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20. Kanjinchô (勸進帳; 勧進帳)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?

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. ?
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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DECEMBER 1950

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
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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
(こび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
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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)
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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

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)
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