SUGAWARA DENJU TENARAI KAGAMI
(菅原傳授手習鑑)

aka OSANAMOJI KABUKI NO KAKIZOME (幼字劇書初)
aka ZÔHO TENJINKI (増補天神記)


NOVEMBER 1903

                
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Kan Shôjô (菅丞相; 管丞相)
 
Plays:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記);
Mikazuki (三日月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/23/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum 百蔵) as Kan Shôjô (菅丞相; 管丞相)
 
Note: The other figure on the cover is as yet unidentified.
 
 




MARCH 1919


Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Michizane (道実)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)               
Medium: woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection

               
                Nakamura Ganjirô I
                (中村鴈治郎) as
                Michizane (道実)
 
                Play: Sugawara Denju
                Tenarai Kagami
                (菅原伝授手習鑑;
                菅原傳授手習鑑)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-
                za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 03/11/19
                Print Date: 03/1919?
                Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
                Medium: woodblock printed
                senshafuda
                Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
            Kakuju (覚寿)
 
            Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
            (菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 03/11/19
            Print Date: 03/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

MAY 1921
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Hangandai Terukuni (菅原伝授手習鑑)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 05/1921?
Artist: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: This print is similar in format to the series of prints
designed  by Kunisada III between 1917 and 1920, and
was probably issued by the publisher in a limited attempt
to continue the series after Kunisada III's death in 1920. 
It is also possible that it is a posthumous reissue of an
unknown Kunisada III design.  
 
 
 



1928


                   
Ichikawa Udanji II (市川右団次; 市川右團次) as
Sukune Tarô (宿祢太郎)

Play: Dômyôji (道明寺), Act II Scene 3 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑) 
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) (#30)
Personal Collection

Note: I have not found a specific Tokyo performance with
this actor in this role.  Udanji II was primarily a Kamigata
actor, and probably performed this role outside of Tokyo.
 
 
 
 
  

 
 
  
 
 
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