SOGANOYA GORÔ (曾我廼家五郎)
09/06/1877 - 11/01/1948
 

                 
 
Plays: Tamabôki (玉箒); Shiraki Men (白木綿); Aoi no Kôro (葵の香爐); Ukamuse (浮む瀬);
Yomigaeri (よみがえり)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/13
Print Date: 03/1913?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) and Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) . 
 

               
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
 
 

Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as
Kyûzaemon (久左衛門)

Play: Go Taiten no On'yado
(御大典の御宿; 御大典のお宿)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/30/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

                 
 
Plays: Kokoro no Iroage (心の色揚); Tsumuji Magari (つむじまがり); Shika Inami (四海波);
Hyakkô no Motoi (百行の基); On'na Ja no Me (女蛇の目)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 
 
 
 

Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as ?
 
Plays: Otemoto Haiken (御手元拝見); Daiyamondo (ダイヤモンド); Hitomoshi Goro (灯ともし頃);
Kankô Bai (寒紅梅); Inochi no Yasu Uri (命の安賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa.

                 
 
Plays: Otemoto Haiken (御手元拝見); Daiyamondo (ダイヤモンド); Hitomoshi Goro (灯ともし頃);
Kankô Bai (寒紅梅); Inochi no Yasu Uri (命の安賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa

                 
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as ?
 
Plays: Hanayomego (花嫁御); Kikîppatsu (危機一髪); Yari (槍); Shinjô (眞情); Teiki no Tsuma (定期の妻)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/30/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.

                 
 
Plays: Shotai Men (初對面); Suitchi (ス井ッチ); Gozen Zumô (御前角力); Onitsuta (鬼蔦);
Kichirei Kanadehon Chûshingura (吉例假名手本忠臣藏)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

                 
 
Plays: Sansuji no Iroito (三筋の色糸); Hisago no Sake (瓢の酒); Nichimutori (日無鳥);
Kokyō no Matsubara (古郷の松原); Shinmachibashi (新町橋)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/18/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

 
 
 
 
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Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as
Tachimen Yajirobé (栃面屋弥次郎兵衛)

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as Kitahachi (喜多八)

Play: Hizakurige (膝栗毛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#33)
*Personal Collection
 
 

Votive Picture (Ema) Thanking the Gods for Success,
from Soganoya Gorô

Print Date: 1931
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
  

              
Soganoya Gorô (曽我廻家五郎) as Kamematsu (亀松)

Play: Sanjyûroku Kaishyô no Uchi  (三十六快笑の内):
 Hazakura (葉桜; 葉櫻)
Performance Place: Shinjuku Daiichi Gekijô
Performance Date: 10/09/35
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)  (#29)
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.  Gorô died on November 1, 1948 at
age 72.  This print may reflect some other performance
but October 1935 is the only performance in Tokyo that I
could find.  There was a play called "Hazakura" that
played at the Kabuki-za in April 1935 but it does not
appear to have been written or performed by Gorô. 
Given the closeness in dates, one wonders if Gorô's
comedy might have been a spoof of the play that
played at the Kabuki-za. The last performance of
Hazakura that I could find before Gorô's death was at
the Misono-za in Kyoto in May 1945.
 
 

Soganoya Gorô: Special Edition of the Soganoya Shinbun
Newspaper; Advertisement for Performance of the
Gorôgeki Troupe

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1937
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

New Year's Card from Soganoya
Gorô: Cage for a Tiger

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Advertisement for Gorôgeki (Troupe
of Soganoya Gorô)

Plays: Uji no Sato (宇治の里); Hana
Kara Chô-chin (鼻から提灯); Ai (愛);
Hôgetsu no Yoru (抱月の夜)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/15//38
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Soganoya Goro, Thanks for the
Success of Our Performance at the
Shinbashi Theater, with Framing
Design of Posters Reading "Full
House" (Ôiri)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts  
 
 
 
  

Advertisement for the Gorôgeki
Troupe with Soganoya Meichô

Play: ?
Performance Place: Naka-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: 02/1939
Print Date: 1939
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

Soganoya Gorô Advertisement

Play: Soga Matsuri (曽我祭)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: 06/01/39
Print Date: 06/1939?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Advertisement for Soganoya Gorô:
The Mountains Invite You, and the
Gorô Theater (Gorôgeki) Also Invites
You!

Play: ?
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: 08/01/40
Print Date: 08/1940?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

New Year's Card from Soganoya
Votive Picture (Ema) with
Dragon

Play: ?
Print Date: 1940
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

New Year's Card from Soganoya
Goro: Signpost under Cherry Blossoms,
Reading "Service for the Bell [at Dôjô-ji]--
The Metal Has Gone for the War Effort"

Play: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Working Together with All Our Might
(一億一心打込め東亜の磯):
Announcement of a Performance by
Soganoya Gorô, Opening April 12

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: 04/12/41
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Announcement of Performances by
Soganoya Gorô

Play: Yudan Dai Geki (油断大劇);
Fujikawa no Gassen (富士川の合戦)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô Theater, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/41
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
  

                   
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
 
 
 

Soganoya Gorô: Announcement of
Gorôgeki Performances in September

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1942
Print Date: 1942
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Soganoya Gorô, Ticket

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1947
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

From Soganoya Gorô, Thank You
for the Full House!

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô Theater
Print Date: 1948
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
  

Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

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

                               
        Soganoya Gorô's Gorôgeki

        Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-
        za, Osaka
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

Advertisement of Soganoya Gorô

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard                   
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

               
        From Soganoya Gorô, Thank You for the Great Success
        of the Fifteenth Anniversary Performance at the Enbujô
        Theater

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shimbashi Enbujô,Tokyo
        Performance Date:
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 

       
        From the Gorôgeki Troupe
        (Soganoya Gorô): Many Thanks for
        the Full Houses and Good Reviews
 
        Play: ?
        Peformance Place: Shimbashi Enbujô,
        Tokyo
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Advertisement for the Gorôgeki of
Soganoya Gorô
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

       
        Advertisement for Performance by Soganoya Gorô: The
        Bridge Scene in Chûshingura
 
        Play: Act 11, Kanadehon Chûshingura (*****)
        Performance Place: Shôchiku Theater, Toyko
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        New Year's Card from Soganoya Gorô: Plum Blossoms
        and Votive Picture (Ema) of Ox

        Play: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

                  
        Summer Greetings from Soganoya
        Gorô: The Heat Is at Its Peak, and
        So Is Our Popularity! Thank You for
        Your Favorable Response to Our
        Performance at the Osaka Kabukiza
 
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-
        za, Osaka
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

From Soganoya Gorô, a Paper Fortune
(Tsujiura)

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Advertisement for Soganoya Gorô and the Gorôgeki Troupe,
Opening November 18

Play: ?
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        Soganoya Gorô, Advertisement for
        "Golou Geki"

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za,
        Osaka
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 
 

                   
        Soganoya Gorô: Advertisement for
        the Gorô Troupe, Which Played in
        Shinbashi at New Year and Will
        Return to Shinjuku in February

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

Message from Soganoya Gorô:
Thank You for the Full House!
(Man'in orei)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        New Year's Card from Soganoya
        Meichô (曽我廼家明蝶): Gosho Ningyô
        Doll with Pestle for Pounding Moch
   
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Soganoya Gorô: Announcing the
Continuation of the Gorôgeki Troupe
at the Shinbashi Enbujô Theater, with
a Change of Program (Ni no kawari)
on the 20th

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts  
 
 
 
  

       
        Soganoya Gorô: Announcing a
        Change of Program (Ni no kawari)        
        for the Gorôgeki Troupe, Beginning
        on the 20th

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

                       
        Advertisement for the Gorôgeki
        Troupe with Soganoya Gorô,
        Appearing at the Shinbashi Enbujô
        Theater from May 1

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Votive Paiintings (Ema), one for
Soganoya Gorô at the Minamiza

Play: ?
Performance Place:Minami-za,
Kyoto
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        A Thank-you to Fans, from
        Soganoya Gorô: Characters for "Full
        House" (Ôiri)

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts