NARUKAMI
(雷神)

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人)
 
Plays: Miyajima no Danmari (宮島だんまり); Sekihara Kami Aoha (関原神葵葉); Narukami (鳴神); 
Suô Otoshi (素襖落); Fune-he Uchikomu Hashima no Shiranami (船打込橋間白浪);
Shinsekai-gai Nigiwai (新世界街賑)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/04/10
Print Date: 05/05/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Ukifune (浮舟)/
Kesataro (袈裟太郎) in Miyajima no Danmari (宮島だんまり) and Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵)
and  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) in unknown roles.
 

               
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 08/1916
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
*Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print was included in Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 10, No. 8 (August 1916) and may have been issued
 separately as a stand-alone print around the same time.  It
was also published as part of a complete set in January 1916.
A copy of the Engei Gahô version is in the Karl collection. 
 
 
 

                 
Narukami (鳴神)
 
Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 1917
Artist: Kaneko Saburô (金子三郎)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban Gajô (歌舞伎十八番画帖)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Narukami  Jônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)       
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Kumo Taema-hime (雲絶間姫)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Narukami  Jônin (鳴神上人)
 
Plays: Kiheitai (奇兵隊); Ataka no Seki (安宅關); Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎);
Narukami (鳴神); Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
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 Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Benkei (弁慶) and Ichikawa Sumizô VI
(市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yoshitsune (義経) in Ataka no Seki (安宅關); Bandô Jusaburô III (阪東壽三郎;
坂東寿三郎) as Hirado Seizô (平戸清藏), Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Kano Gon'emon
(河野権右衛門), and an unknown actor in Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎); and Kataoka Gado IV
(片岡我童) as Kyô Ningyô (京人形) and Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎) in
Kyô Ningyô (京人形). 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Narukami Shônin (鳴神上人)
 
Play: Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Sadanji II
performed this role in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in May
1910, and at the Teikoku Gekijô in December 1919.

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#9)
*Personal Collection

Note:  Sadanji II first played this role in Tokyo at the Meiji-za
in May 1910.  He would again play this role at the Teikoku
Gekijô in December 1919.  Depending on the precise
publication date of this print, it is possible that Shunsen
modeled this print after Sadanji II's 1919 performance.
 
 
 
 

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Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 04/01/31
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 

Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô
Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date:  04/1931?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番)
(small size)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

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

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

                   
Play: Narukami (鳴神), Panel 15 of
Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku
(こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Takane Kôji (高根宏治)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                 
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 08/01/52
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Vol. 2, Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
*Personal Collection (#114)
 
 

               
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Kumo Taema-hime (雲絶間姫)

Play: Narukami (鳴神 )
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1981
Print Date: 05/1983
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection (#183/200)

Note: Tamasaburô V first performed this role in a production at the
Kabuki-za in September 1970.  He would later perform the role in Paris in
June 1986.
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎)  as
Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/85
Print Date: 09/1985
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, A Selection of Six Aragoto Characters -
the Name-Taking Ceremony of Ichikawa Danjûrô XII]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
Jûni-daime Ichikawa Danjûrô Shûmei Hirô Aragoto Roku-sen
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・
十二代目市川團十郎襲名披露　荒事六選)
Personal Collection (#11/54)
 
 
 
 

               
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami
Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 04/23/1990
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi
(山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Nôsatsu Kabuki
Jûhachiban #1
(納札歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎) as Narukami (鳴神)

Play: Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻) [Act III, Scene 3 in modern
productions]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/94
Print Date: 06/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Narukami (鳴神)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#17/80)
 
 
 

                 
Yori Narukami Jôjōnin (Fundo) (り鳴神上人(憤怒))

Play: Narukami (鳴神)
Print Date: 01/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#4/45)
 
 
 

                 
Yori Kumo no Taema Hime (Yûwaku)
(より雲の絶間姫(誘惑))

Play: Narukami (鳴神)
Print Date: 01/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#4/45)

                   
Narukami Shônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: 1999
Artist: Torii Kiyomitsu (鳥居清光)
Medium: A.P. Lithograph
Image courtesy of Gallery Sobi Pallas
 
 

                   
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Series: Kouta Kabuki Jûhachiban (小唄 歌舞伎十八番)
Medium: lithograph or collotype
Personal Collection

Note: The original Shinsui painting upon which this print
is based is dated 1961, so the print would have to be made
on or after that date.  Seeing as the prints were accompanied
by a cassette tape of kouta music, the prints likely date to
the late sixties at the earliest and more likely the 1970s. 
 
 
 
 

                 
Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series:  Kabuki Kumadori Shû (歌舞伎隈取集)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

                 
Narukami (鳴神) II

Play: Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: c. 1980s
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
Image courtesy of Robyn Buntin of Honolulu

                 
Narukami (鳴神) IV
 
Play: Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: c. 1980s
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 30)
Image courtesy of the Yoseido Gallery

                 
Narukami (鳴神) A
 
Play: Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 49)
Image courtesy of Galerie Shinkura
 
 

               
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami
Fudô Kitayama Zakura
(雷神不動北山櫻)
Print Date:  ?
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban
(歌舞伎十八番)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

 
? as ? (possibly Narukami (鳴神))

Play: ? (possibly Narukami Fudô
Kitayama Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻))
Performance Place:?
Performance Date: ?      
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Personal Collection
           

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

                             
          Narukami (鳴神)

          Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama
         Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
 
 
          
        

               
Narukami (鳴神)

Play:  Act IV of Narukami Fudô Kitayama
Zakura (雷神不動北山櫻)
Series: Kabuki Jûhachiban (歌舞伎十八番)
Print Date; ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection