Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 09/15/97
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#15]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh

 

                 
 
Plays: Iwatesan (岩手山); Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵); Kokaji (小鍛冶); Noriaibune (乗合船)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/11
Print Date: 05/12/11
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 Hoshikage Doemon
(星影土右衛門) and  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵) in
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎蔵).
 

                 

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: [List of Noh Play Equipment)] Nôgu Taikan (能具大鑑) #77
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
Note:  Kongō school. Tsukurimono: Ichijôdai. Katana (sword), kanatoko (anvil), and tsuchi
(hammer) are placed on the ichijôdai. Nusa and shide (zigzag-shaped paper streamers) are
set up on the ichijôdai as shown in the print. All schools use the same ichijôdai. Kashira
(headgear): Shirogashira kanmuri (a crown with white wig) with white fox headdress. The
white fox is used only "Shirogashira" kogaki is performed. Golden fox headdress is used when
there is no kogaki. In Kanze school, fox headdreass is not used when they use a white wig.
 

                
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 03/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [One Hundred Nô Plays]
Nôgaku Hyakuban (能楽百番) [#65-66]
*Personal Collection


 

                
 Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit] 
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)
 

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 07/05/1925
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [A Great Mirror of Nô Pictures] Nôga Taikan (能画大鑑), Vol. 2, #35
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
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 Artelino.com
 

                   
Myôjin (明神)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 1942
Artyist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Yuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 雪の巻)
Image courtesy of Kosho
Ajia-gôn

                   
Hanayagi Jusuke II (花柳寿輔; 花柳壽輔) as Myôjin (明神)

Play:  Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection

Note: Dance Master Jusuke II was the choreographer for the
original performance in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in September 1939. 
The print may depict Jusuke II's performance at some Noh
theatre, as I can find no record of him performing it in a Kabuki
theatre.
 
 

                 
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]  Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: 06/1954
Artist: Yamaguchi Ryôshû (山口蓼洲)
Series: Noh Play Explanation and Stories Series 2
 

                   
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit] 
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

                   
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: c. 1950s?
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: [Collection of Noh Plays]
Noh Hanga-shû (能版画集)
 
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 

       
        Ichikawa Udanji II (市川右団次) as
        Inari Myōjin (稲荷明神)

        Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

                
Inari Myôjin (稲荷明神)/[Fox spirit]
Kitsune no Seirei (狐の精霊)
 
Sanjô no Kokaji Munechika ( 三條小鍛冶宗近)

Play: Kokaji (小鍛冶)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: ?
Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of New York