KIOI JISHI
(勢獅子)

                 
 
Plays: Kawanakajima Kassen (川中島合戦); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Shinonome (東雲); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島); Kioi Jishi Matsuri Nigiwai (勢獅子祭賑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/10/06
Print Date: 10/10/06
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 Koharu (小春) and  Ichikawa Yaozô VII
(市川八百蔵) as Edoya Taihei (江戸屋太兵衛役) in Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島).   The middle
figure from Kawanakajima Kassen (川中島合戦) is unknown.
 
 

                 
 
Play: Hanashôbu Keian Jikki (花菖蒲慶安実記); Horikawa (堀川); Narita Risei Homare no Yûten
(成田利生誉祐天); Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/08/09
Print Date: 05/09/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠彌)
in  Hanashôbu Keian Jikki (花菖蒲慶安実記), and Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Ryôrijin Kisuke (料理人喜介) and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)
in Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃).
 

                 
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Kioishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Moronô (師直),  Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助),  Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Momonoi
Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助), Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Okaru (おかる), and 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門) in Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵).
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民傳); Bôshibari (棒しばり); Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô
(親譲御所五郎藏); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/17
Print Date: 03/1917?
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 Kiuchi Sôgorô (木内宗五郎) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Jinbei (甚兵衛) in Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民傳); and  Onoe Baikô
VI (尾上梅幸) as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵) in Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô (親譲御所五郎藏).
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Ezo no Yoshitsune (蝦夷の義經); Biwa no Nadokoro Yuki no Kagekiyo (琵琶名所月景清);
Gengobê Oman Imayô Satsuma Uta (源五兵衛おまん今様薩摩歌); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/02/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Tsurukichi ( 鳶頭鶴吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Asakusa Kôen
Kan'non Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/31/24
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#A]
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ennocuki II also performed
this role in a special performance
at the Kokugikan (国技館)  in
December 1924.   It is  possible
that this print reflects that
performance. 
 
 
 
     

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Kamekichi (鳶頭亀吉) or
Tobizu Tsurukichi (鳶頭政吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1918-1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: Between 1918 and 1925, Ennosuke II performed
in this play four times in Tokyo: at the Kabuki-za in
May 1918, the Shintomi-za in October 1920, a special
performance  at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in December
1924, and the Kan'non Gekijô in January 1925.  He
and an other actor would alternate playing the  roles
of Kamekichi and Tsurukichi.