OSOME HISAMATSU UKINA NO YOMIURI
(於染久松色讀販)

aka OSOME NO NANAYAKU (お染の七役)
ABURAYA OSOME UKINA NO YOMIURI (油屋お染久松色読販)

                 

Plays: Kanadehon Chūshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵); Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(お染久松浮名の讀賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/14
Print Date: 04/1914?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Jitsukawa Enjirô I as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎), Hyakushô Yoichibê
(百姓 与一兵衛), Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助), Kô no Moronô (高師直), Teraoka Heiemon
(寺岡平右衛門), Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平), and Tonase (戸名瀬) in Kanadehon Chūshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵).
 
 

                   
Aburaya Osome (油屋お染)

Play: Aburaya Osome Ukina no Yomiuri (油屋お染久松色読販)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hanabusa Hideki (花房英樹)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #4
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum 
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kotarô V (中村児太郎) as
Osome (お染)

Play: Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(於染久松色読販)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/83
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection  
 
Note: Kotarô V also portrayed Osome in a special
performance of Osome (お染) in August 1982 at the
Kokuritsu Gekijō.  It is possible that this print reflects
that performance.
 
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Dote no Oroku (土手のお六)

Play: Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(於染久松色読販)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note:  Bandô Tamasaburô performed this role in Tokyo
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in June 1971 and at the Kabuki-
za in July 1977, December 1988, and October 2003.