KUMO NI MAGOU UENO NO HATSUHANA
(天衣紛上野初花)

aka KUMO NO UENO SAN'E NO SAKUMAE (雲上野三衣策前)
aka YUKI NO YÛBE IRIYA NO AZEMICHI (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
KÔCHIYAMA TO NAOZAMURAI (河内山と直侍)
aka KÔCHIYAMA (河内山)
aka NAOZAMURAI (直侍)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/1881
Print Date: 06/1903
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This print was issued posthumously.  Danjûrô IX
reprised this role at the Kabuki-za in March 1900.  He also
played Kôchiyama in an earlier version called Kumo no
Ueno San'e no Sakumae (雲上野三衣策前 at the
Kawarasaki-za in October 1874 and again at the Meiji-za in
October 1895, as well as in a play called Sanpukutsui Ueno
no Fûkei (三幅対上野風景) at the Kabuki-za that opened
on October 28, 1890. 
 
 
 

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)


Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no
Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/1900
Print Date: 02/10/1900?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

   Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎;
   市川團十郎) as
   Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊) 

    
     Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
     Michitose (三千歳)


     Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no
     Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
     Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 03/07/1900
     Print Date: 03/1900?
    Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the Tsuboouchi
     Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

     Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
     Kaneko Ichinojô (金子市之丞)



 

  Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
  Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次)

                 
 
Plays: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari (新薄雪物語); Kuramayama no Kisei Kakegaku (鞍馬山祈誓 掛額);
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪夕夜入谷畔道)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/10
Print Date: 04/01/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Sonobe Hyôe (園部兵衛),
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Saizaki Iga-no-Kami  (幸崎伊賀守), and  Nakamura Shikan V
(中村芝翫) as Ume-no-Kata (梅の方) in Shin Usuyuki Monogatari (新薄雪物語).
 

                 
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Kôchiyama (河内山); Nozarashi Gosuke (野晒悟助)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/06/14
Print Date: 05/1914?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Motome (求女) and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Fukashichi (鱶七) in Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓).
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kôchiyama Munetoshi (河内山宗俊)
 
Play: Kumo ni Magau Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花 ; 雲衣紛上野初花 )
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/1915
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   

Plays: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花); Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓); Shinobi Au Haru no Yuki Doke
(忍逢春雪解); Tenchi Kinôgi no E-Awase
(天地金扇面画合)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/02/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Omiwa (三輪; おみわ) and 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Fukashichi (鱶七) in  Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓).
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀)
 
Plays: Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪 暮夜入谷畦道); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/16
Print Date: 03/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in
Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚).
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次)  as
Kôchiyama (河内山)
 
Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/17
Print Date: 10/1917?
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: The lack of a set number on this print
would indicate that it was made in circa
1918-1920.  However, the only record I can
find of Sadanji II portraying Kôchiyama at
the Shintomi-za was in October 1917.
 
 
 
                       

            
            Ichikawa Sumizô VI
            (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
            Matsue Izumo-no-Kami (松江出雲守)

            Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
            (天衣紛上野初花)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 10/01/17
            Print Date: 10/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: The lack of a set number on this print
            would indicate that it was made in circa
            1918-1920.  However, the only record I can
            find of Sumizô VI portraying Izumo-no-Kami
            at the Shintomi-za was in October 1917.
 
 
 
 

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Michitose (三千歳)
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za,
Yokohoma
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

             
            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as'
            Kaneko Ichinojô
 
            Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
            (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
            Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection 
 

            
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
 
            Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
            (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
            Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); 
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道); Yoshiwara Suzume (教草吉原雀)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

           
Ôkabuki Engei Sugoroku (大歌舞伎 演藝双六)
Print Date: 04/05/21
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection

            
            11. Kôchiyama Sôshun  (河内山宗俊) [宗春]
            Print Date: 04/05/21
            Artist: ?

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
covering Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2 of
Kumo ni Magô Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#3)
*Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV first played Naojirô in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1905.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also performed this role at the Kabuki-za in April 1910, at
the Kabuki-za in November 1916, and at the Shintomi-za in
December 1919.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Uzaemon XV's 1916 or 1919 performances.
 
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Naojirô (直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 05/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV also performed this role opposite
Baikô VI  in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1926, but this print more closely resembles a
photograph from the 1925 production.

 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)


Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)   
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 05/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Baikô VI also performed this role opposite
Uzaemon XV  in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1926, but this print more closely resembles a
photograph from the 1925 production.
 
 
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
 
 

         
          Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
          Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
          
          Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai
          (河内山と直侍) 
          Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
          Performance Date: 11/01/26
          Publication Date: 1927
          Artist: ?

            
            Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as
            Michitose (三千歳)
           
            Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai
            (河内山と直侍)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/01/26
            Publication Date: 1927
             Artist: ?

           
 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍); Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/26
Print Date: 11/1926?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道), covering Act IV,
Scenes 1 and 2 of Kumo ni Magô
Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 03/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson
 
 
 
       

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Kôchiyama (河内山)

Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no
Hatsuhana(天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/27
Print Date:  c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
3rd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
3-shû (舞台絵巻 第3集)
Personal Collection

                                     
                    Nakamura Kichiemon I as (中村吉右衛門) as
                    Kôchiyama Munetoshi (河内山宗俊)

                    Play: Kumo ni Magau Ueno no Hatsuhana
                    (天衣紛上野初花 ; 雲衣紛上野初花 )
                    Performance Place:  Hongô-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date:  04/02/27
                    Print Date:  04/1927?
                    Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
                    Medium: Lithograph
                    Personal Collection

                    Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed Kôchiyama in a
                    production of  Kôchiyama (河内山) at the Meiji-za in May
                    1923.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print reflects
                    that performance.
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Naozamurai (直侍) [Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no
Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/32
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#26)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Uzaemon XV died on May 6, 1945
at age 72.  He first played the role of Kataoka Naojirô  in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in April 1910, and his .final
Tokyo appearance in this role was at the Kabuki-za in
June 1943.  This print, however, closely resembles a
photograph from the September 1932 production at the
Kabuki-za.
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Arajirô II (市川荒次郎) as
Kitamura Daizan (北村大膳)

Play:  Kôchiyama (河内山)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 04/1949
Print Date: 10/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Arajirô II first played this role in Tokyo at
the Meiji-za in October 1895.  Given the
publication date of the print, it is possible that it
reflects a subsequent performance in some other
venue outside of Tokyo.  Arajirô II's final
appearance in this role in Tokyo was at the
Tokyo Gekijô in December 1940.
 
 
 
 

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
 
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Jinbo Tomoyo (神保朋世)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Kubota Kinsen, Miyao Shigeo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  The panels by Jinbo follow.
 
 
 

                   
Michitose (三千歳) and Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
 
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi  (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
Panel 13 of  Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
 
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Jinbo Tomoyo (神保朋世)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Play:Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/57
Print Date: 03/1957?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Shôroku II also performed the role in
January 1956 at the Shinbashi Enbujô.  It is
possible that this print depicts that performance.  
 

                   
Ichikawa Arajirô II (市川荒次郎) as
Kitamura Daizan (北村大膳)

Play:  Kôchiyama (河内山)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: This appears to be a memorial print for Arajirô II, who died
on June 16, 1957.  He first played this role in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in
October 1895.  Arajirô II's final appearance in this role in Tokyo was
at the Tokyo Gekijô in December 1940.  His final appearance in
this role was at the Osaka Kabuki-za in April 1949.
 
 
 
 

                 
Kôchiyama (河内山)
[Koshimoto Namiji (腰元浪路)]

Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花)
Print Date: 1976
Artist: Al Hirschfeld
Series: Kabuki
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection (#H.C.I.)
 
 
 
 

                   
Michitose (三千歳)

Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Print Date: c. 1985 (ed. 250
Artist: )Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Image courtesy of Mike Peters
 
Note: This print was issued posthumously.
 
 
 
 

               
? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shikoku Konpira Kabuki Grand Theater,
Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 15-21, 1987
Print Date: 1987
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Kôchiyama (河内山),
Tsuri Onna (釣女), Numazu (沼津), and Yashiki Musume
(屋敷娘).  It starred Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII
(中村勘三郎), Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎),
Sawamura Tôjûrô  II (沢村藤十郎;  澤村藤十郎), Bandô
Hikosaburô (坂東彦三郎), Nakamura Kashô III (中村歌昇);
Ichikawa Shinsha II (市川新車), and Nakamura Kangorô XIII.
 
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XV (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/99
Print Date: 04/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 3)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 3
(第十三期集成シリーズの3)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)

Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s.  See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Oschichi.
 

                   
Folder

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanabu III (長谷川貞信)
Print Date: 06/20/83
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a later printing by the Soba
Customs Materials Research Group.
 

                   
Ichikawa Jukai III  (市川寿海; 市川壽海) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
    
Bandô Jusaburô III (阪東壽三 郎; 坂東寿三郎) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松)

Play:  Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanabu III (長谷川貞信)
Print Date: 06/20/83 (reissue date)
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Note: The original Sadanobu III print was presumably made between February 1949 (when Ichikawa
Sumizô VI took the name Jukai III) and  September 1954 (the month that Jusaburô III died).  Jukai III
frequently performed the role of Kataoka Naojirô during the 1950s.  While the pair frequently acted
opposite each other and were nicknamed "Futatsu Kotobuki" (the two Kotobuki) because both
actors had the ideogram Kotobuki in their first names), I have been unable to find a specific
performance with involving both actors.  It is possible that it is a mitate-e.

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Play:  Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
(雪暮夜入谷畦道)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanabu III (長谷川貞信)
Print Date: 06/20/83
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
     
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
covering Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2 of
Kumo ni Magô Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunimatsu (歌川国松; 歌川圀松)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
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Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in November
1905, April 1910, and November 1916; at the Shintomi-za in December 1919,
at the Kabuki-za in May 1925, at the Teikoku Gekijô in November 1926, at the
Kabuki-za in September 1932, November 1933, and April 1936; at the Tôyoko
Gekijô in May 1938, at the Kabuki-za in February 1939, at the Tôyoko Gekijô in
December 1940, and at the Kabuki-za in April 1942, and May-June 1943. 
However, since Kunimatsu also lived in Osaka, it is also possible that this
print reflects a regional performance.