Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)/Torii VII/Kiyotada IV/Torii Tadakiyo (鳥居忠清)

TORII KIYOTADA (鳥居清忠)

aka Torii VII; Kiyotada IV; Torii Tadakiyo (鳥居忠清)

1911

MARCH

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Amatsu Otome (天津乙女)/[Celestial Maiden] Tennyo (天女) and
Masako-hime (政子姫)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hakuryô (伯竜) and Katô-ji (加藤次)

? as ?

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Honda Dainaiki (誉田大内記) and Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右衛門)

Kabuki Playbill (Tsuji banzuke) for Plays at the Initial Opening of the Imperial Theater:
Hagoromo (羽衣), Igagoe (伊賀越), and Yoritomo (頼朝).

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/11
Print Date: 03/04/11
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints

Note: The center panel is by Kiyotada IV. The artist for the other two panels are unread.

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右衛門)

Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as Onochi (おのち)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kato-ji (加藤次)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Masako-hime (政子姫)

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝)

Plays: Yoritomo (頼朝), Igagoe (伊賀越), and Hagoromo (羽衣).
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/11
Print Date: 03/04/11
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

JUNE

Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

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

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Chienai (智恵内)

Ichikawa Danzô VII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵) as Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hanzawa Heikurô (榛沢平九郎)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otani (お光)

Plays: Rômon Gosan Kiri (楼門五山桐); Shinbugun (振武軍); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻); Mikamiyama (三上山)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/11
Print Date: 06/01/11
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

JULY

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Plays: Suikoden Yui no Danmari (水滸伝雪挑闘); Kokoro no Koe ( 心の声); Itarian, Dansu, Ze, Rôzu
(イタリアン、ダンス、ゼ、ローズ); Eshi Jitsuha Kanja (画師実は間者); Dokushô (独唱); Santarô
(三太郎); [Cakewalk] Kêki Uôku (ケーキウオーク); Kumadori Ataka no Matsu ( 隈取安宅松);
Yûsuzumi Kamo no Kawakaze (夕涼鴨川風)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/11
Print Date: 07/1911?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center

SEPTEMBER

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kurihara Kônosuke (栗原幸之助)

Sawamura Chôjûrô VII (沢村長十郎; 澤村長十郎) as Mukan tayû Atsumori (無官太夫敦盛)

Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子; 澤村訥子) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実 ; 熊谷次郎直實)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osetsu (おせつ)

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Aoyagi Raihachi (青柳賴母)

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Oyoshi (お義)

Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子; 澤村訥子) as Matsudaira Yoshimine (松平吉峯)

? Kunigorô (國五郎) as Shinjô Heihachi (新庄平八)

Plays: [A Change of Heart] Shinki Itten (心機一転); Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅), and
Yumedono (夢殿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/11/1911
Print Date: 09/1911?
Medium: Woodblock printed playbill
Image courtesy of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts

? Kunigorô (國五郎) as Shinjô Heihachi (新庄平八)

Sawamura Chôjûrô VII (沢村長十郎; 澤村長十郎) as Mukan tayû Atsumori (無官太夫敦盛)

Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子; 澤村訥子) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実 ; 熊谷次郎直實)

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Oyoshi (お義)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osetsu ( おせつ)

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Aoyagi Raihachi (青柳賴母)

Plays: Yumedono (夢殿); Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅), and [A Change of Heart]
Shinki Itten (心機一転)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/11
Print Date: 09/01/11
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

OCTOBER 1911

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ôgushi Jirô (大串次郎)

Plays: Ane to Imôto (姉と妹); Yotsugi no Soga (世繼曾我); Kotefu no Mahi (胡蝶の舞);
Ketsu Kon-hantai Kurabu (結婚反對倶樂部); ／Mu-nraito Dori-mu
(ムーンライトドリーム); Kamakura Bushi (鎌倉武士)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/11
Print Date: 10/01/1911
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

NOVEMBER

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dōjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/1911
Print Date: 11/1911?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Ichikawa Sai'nyû I (市川齊入) as Gotobê (五斗兵衛)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Satô Shirobyôe Tadanobu (佐藤四郎兵衛忠信)

Ichikawa Udanji II (市川右団次; 市川右團次) as Miurasuke Yoshizumi (三浦介義澄)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamamo no Mae (玉藻の前)

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助)as Koharu (小春)

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Plays: Nobi (野火); Yoshitsune Koshigoejô (義経腰越状); Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信);
Sayo Shigure Ten no Amijima (小夜時雨天網島); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/11
Print Date: 11/01/1911
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

DECEMBER

Murata Kikuko (村田嘉久子) as Shiragiku (白菊)

Fujisawa Asajirô (藤沢浅二郎; 藤澤浅次郎;
藤澤浅二郎) as Shirakyû (白休)

Plays: Chigo-ga-Fuchi (児ヶ淵); Hyakunenzen
to Kon'nichi (百年前と今日); Yuki no Yo (雪の夜);
[Cavalleria Rusticana] Kabareria Rusuchikana
(カバレリア、ルスチカナ); Joyû Boshû
(女優募集); Yakko Modori Kago (奴戻駕)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/15/11
Print Date: 12/15/11
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection

Print Date: 12/28/11, Appendix to Engei Gahô Vol. 6
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Danzô VII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
        Chobei (長兵衛)

        Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
        (御存鈴ヶ森)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 012/28/11
        Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)

        Note: Since Kôshirô VII assumed that
          name in November 1911, it would appear
          that Torii Kiyotada is depicting him a
         performance under an earlier name.