Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.

Onoe Fujaku VIII (尾上芙雀) as Toki-hime (時姫)
           
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/18/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎 ) as
Hatsugiku (初菊)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1915
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Terasawa Kôtarô (寺澤孝太郎)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection 
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Tatsumiya Otatsu (辰巳屋お辰)
 
Play:  Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha
(四千両小判梅葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 07/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Okuma (おくま)

Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode MukashiHachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection 
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵) and
 
Onoe Kikujirô III  (尾上菊次郎) as 
Matsuyama (松山)
      
Play: Nezumi Komon Harugi no
Shingata (鼠小紋春着新形)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 

               
Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Chûrō Onoe (中老尾上)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #6
^Personal Collection
 
Note: This design was posthumously
reissued in a slightly different color scheme
when Nakamura Utaemon V performed this
role at the Shintomi-za in February 1922.
 
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Konatsu (小夏)

Play: Yanagi Shima Kezuka no Yurai
(妙見堂毛塚由来)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Since Kikujirô III died on August 27,
1919, the performance in this print would
have occurred on or before August 1919.

            
            Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎)
            as Konatsu (小夏)
 
            Play: Yanagi Shima Kezuka no
            Yurai (妙見堂毛塚由来)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/02/18
            Print Date: 05/1918?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: Since Kikujirô III died on
            August 27, 1919, the performance
            in this print would have occurred
            on or before August 1919.
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Masaoka (政岡)
 
Play: Ume Momiji Nishiki no Dateori
(梅照葉錦伊達織)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/08/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Ume-no-Kata (梅の方)

Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
(新薄雪物語)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎)

Play: ?
Print Date: 08/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This is a death print for Onoe Kikujirô III, who died on
August 27, 1919 at age 38.