KATAOKA NIZAEMON XII (片岡仁左衛門)
09/09/1882 - 03/16/1946

aka KATAOKA GADÔ IV (片岡我童)

                 
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Mochizuki Saemon (望月左衛門)
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房)
 
Plays: Shikorobiki (錣引); Tôdai Yawa (東台夜話); Mochizuki (i望月); Ekirei (駅鈴);
Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki (近頃河原の達引)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/20/12
Print Date: 09/20/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)
  
Plays: Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信); Shôutsushi Asagao Banashi (生寫朝顔日記);
Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語); Mitsu no Tomoe Yukino Yobanashi (三巴雪夜話)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/16
Print Date: 12/1916?
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 an unidentified actor in an unknown role and Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左團次; 市川左団次) as Satô Shirobyôe Tadanobu (佐藤四郎兵衛忠信) in Goban Tadanobu
(碁盤忠信); and Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助) as Utazawa Omon (歌澤おもん) and  Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yoshigorô (吉五郎) in Mitsu no Tomoe Yukino Yobanashi (三巴雪夜話). 
 
 

 
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
as Okuma (おくま)
           
Play: Musume Hyoban Zen'aku Kagami
(娘評判善悪鏡)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/17
Print Date: 05/1917?
Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #5
Personal Collection
 
 
 
  

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as [Heisaku of Numazu] Numazu no
Heisaku (沼津の平作)
       
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
Musume Oyone  (娘お米)

Play: Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 11/03/1917
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
        as ?

        Kataoka Hajime (片岡一) as
        Shibakari Otome (柴刈乙女)
       
        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as ?

        Play(s): ?; Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
        Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
        (伊賀越道中双六); ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: This was Kataoka Hajime's first
        stage appearance.
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Plays: Taikôki Chôsen no Maki (太閤記朝鮮之巻); Shin Asagao Nikki (新朝顔日記); Ôsakazuki Shusen
no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戰強者); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/18
Print Date: 12/1918?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yôhachi (人楊八) in Taikôki Chôsen no
Maki (太閤記朝鮮之巻); and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Baba Sarurobê
(馬塲三郎兵衛) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戰強者).  The other two figures are
unidentified.

Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
Iinuma Katsugorô (飯沼勝五郎)
 
Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no Adauchi
(箱根霊験躄仇討)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/02/19
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

            
            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
            Iinuma Katsugorô (飯沼勝五郎)
 
            Play: Hakone Reigen Izari no
            Adauchi (箱根霊験躄仇討)
            Performance Place: Meiji-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/02/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎)
 
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
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Kumo Taema-hime (雲絶間姫) and Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人) in Narukami (鳴神).

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock test print
Image courtesy of Ed Freis

Note:  This keyblock test print significantly alters
the lines on the collar,proper right sleeve, eye-
brows, bridge of the nose, and hands from those
on any known version of this print.design. 
Presumably the blocks were subsequently
recarved in whole or in part before a commercial
version of this design was released.  See the
entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.
 
 
 
 
 

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection

Note:  This is a keyblock test print with a tissue
paper overlay on the right sleeve with hand-
coloring suggesting the floral pattern of the
kimono.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is an unnumbered test print (though not a test print
corresponding to the keyblock print shown above).  It may be a
color variant or else an unfaded example of the first edition
printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  This is the first edition printing of this design (edition of 100),
possibly faded.  Gado IV performed this role at the Shinbashi Enbujô
in Tokyo in June 1924, and likely performed it in Kyoto around that
time.  It is also possible that the play was called Shin Asagao Nikki
(新朝顔日記), a new version of  Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki that was
sometimes performed in its place.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of Scholten Japanese Art
 
Note:  This is the second edition printing of this design in a
variant color scheme.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.  A seemingly
similar version from the Ed Freis collection is shown in Brown
and Goodall-Cristante, Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art/University of Washington
Press 1996).  That copy is stamped on the verso as being a
sample print.
 
 
 
 
 

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)           
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924 or later
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is either a color variant or a faded copy of the second
edition printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.   

               
Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Matsudaira Chôshichirô (松平長七郎)

Play: Sanzen Ryô Kogane no Kurairi
(三千両初春蔵入;  三千両初春藏入)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/36
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#27)
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.  Nizaemon XII died on March 16,
1946 at age 65.
 
 
 
 

 
Kataoka Nizaemon XII (片岡仁左衛門)
as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
(壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1943
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XII played this role at
the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in June 1941.
That production likely toured Osaka
around that time.

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XII? (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助; 大石内蔵助)
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)?

Note: I can find no record of Nizaemon XII or
XIII performing this role in Tokyo during Shunsen's
lifetime, leading me to believe that it depicts
Nizaemon XI.   Nixaemon XI portrayed the
character several times in plays such as Goban
Teiheiki (碁盤太平記) and Ôishi Kuranosuke
(大石内蔵助).   It is possible that it was intended
as a memorial print, which would date it to the
mid-1930s.  Although purporting to be hanga
genga in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs, it
appears to be a finished painting and I have not
found a hand-colored keyblock print for this
design.
 
 
 

 
   Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
   as Nagato-no-Kami (長門守)
  
   Play: Ume Kyôdai Naniwa
   Senki (梅✪✪浪花扇記)
   Performance Place: ?
   Performance Date: ?
   Print Date: ?
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover
                      

       
        Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
        (片岡仁左衛門) as
        Fujiya Izaemon
        (藤屋伊左衛門))

        Play: Kuruwa Bunshô
        (廓文章)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Nizaemon XI performed
        this role four times in Tokyo
        between February 1906 and
        November 1922.  Nizaemon XII
        performed this role in Tokyo in
        February 1942.  Presumably one
        of those productions toured in
        Osaka.

       
        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
        as Kyô Ningyô  (京人形)

        Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Gadô IV performed
        this role at least twice in
        Tokyo, at the Kabuki-za in
        November 1916 and at the
        Teikoku Gekijô  in December
        1919.  It is possible that one
        of those productions toured
        Osaka.
       

Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
En'ya Hangan (塩冶判官)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
       
Note: Gadô IV played Hangan in a
production at the Shinbashi Enbujô in
Tokyo in June 1935.  It is possible that
he also performed the role in Osaka
around that time.
 
 
 

       
        Kataoka Gadō IV (片岡我童) as ?

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

       
        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
        Akoya (阿古屋)

        Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki
        (壇浦兜軍記)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: pre-1936
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
        Note: Gadô IV performed this role at the
        Teikoku Gekijô in May 1931.  That pro-
        duction likely played in Osaka or Kyoto
        around that time.

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
(片岡仁左衛門);; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童); Bandô
Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助)

Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
 
 
 

       
        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
        Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura
        Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
        (松本幸四郎); Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII (片岡仁左衛門);
        Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸); Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎);
        Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

 Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
 pochibukuro shown above: ?; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
 Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III
 (市川左団次; 市川左團次); Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) 

Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

           
            Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)

            Play: ?
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: This pochibukuro
            bears the mon of Kataoka
            Gadô IV.  It may or may not
            be by Sadanobu III.

                   
                    Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Ichimura *** (市村**)

                    Play: 
                    Print Date: pre-1936
                    Series: ?
                    Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)