ROKKASEN SUGATA NO IRODORI
(六歌仙容彩)

aka KISEN (喜撰)

                 
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Kisen (喜撰)
 
Plays: Tengajaya (天下茶屋); Kokusen'ya Gassen (国姓爺合戦); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/10
Print Date: 03/02/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Goshôgun Kanki
(伍将軍甘輝),  Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Watônai (和藤内), and  Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Kinshôjo (錦生女) in Kokusen'ya Gassen (国姓爺合戦).
 

                 
 
Plays: Nue Taiji (鵺退治); Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝); Izumo no Okuni (出雲の阿国);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨); Rokkasen Kyôga no Suminuri (六歌仙狂画墨塗)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/10
Print Date: 06/01/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: On'na Rônin (女浪人); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記); Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申);
Bun'ya (文屋); Kisen (喜撰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/11
Print Date: 06/05/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Shikan V (中村 芝翫) as Ochiyo (お千代) and Kataoka Nizaemon
XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Hanbê (半兵衛) in Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申). 
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Bun'ya Yasuhide (文屋康秀)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Gion no Okaji (祇園のお梶)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as  Kisen (喜撰)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono no Komachi (小野小町)
 
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂);  Taiwan Miyage Seiban Shûrai (台湾土産生蕃襲来); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/13
Print Date: 05/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Bun'ya Yasuhide (文屋康秀)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kisen Hôshi (喜撰法師)
  
Plays: Shûsan (集散); Garakate (ガラカテ); Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori (六歌仙容彩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/16/20
Print Date: 02/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays:  Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曽我対面); Kanzaki Sasaya Banashi (神崎笹屋話);
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子); Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松); Kisen (喜撰)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/37
Print Date: 12/1937?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Kichirei Soga no Taimen (吉例曽我対面); Kanzaki Sasaya Banashi (神崎笹屋話);
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子); Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松); Kisen (喜撰)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/37
Print Date: 12/1937?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 

                   
Bun'ya Yasuhide
(文屋康秀)

Dance: Bun'ya (文屋),
Section II of Rokkasen
Sugata no Irodori
(六歌仙容彩)
Print Date: 1942
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Hana no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 花の巻)
Image courtesy of
Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松縁) as
Kisen Hôshi (喜撰法師)

Dance: Kisen (喜撰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/03/84
Print Date: 09/1984
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 5)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第三期大首絵シリーズの5)
Personal Collection (#32/45)
 
 
 
 

Okaji (お梶)

Dance:  Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori (六歌仙容彩)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Lithograph
Series: [100 Views of Dance Shikishi]
Shikishi odori hyakkei   (色紙おどり百景)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
                Bandô Mitsugorô VII
                (坂東三津五郎) as
                Kisen (喜撰)

                Dance: Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori
                (六歌仙容彩)
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                matchbook cover
 
                Note: Mitsugorô VII first performed
                this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
                za in July 1907.  His final
                appearance in Tokyo in this role
                was at the Kabuki-za in February
                1957.