Onoe Kikugorô VI (中村芝翫) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村 羽左衛門) as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)

Play:  Hiyoku no Mon Itoshî Noji (比翼紋愛井の字)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/15/06
Print Date: 11/1906?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Three woodblock printed postcards
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Daigo no Hanami (醍醐の花見); Gozonji Banzui Chôbê
(御存幡随長兵衛); Harugasumi Sora-mo Sumiyoshi (春霞空住吉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/24/08
Print Date: 03/24/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
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 Masaoka (政岡) and Ichikawa Danzô VII
(市川団蔵; 市川團蔵) as Nikki Danjô 仁木弾正) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩).

                 
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi  (伽羅先代萩); Gozonji Banzui Chôbei (御存幡随長兵衛);
Daikyôji Mukashi Goyomi (大経師昔暦); Waka Sanjin (和歌三神); Otsu-e (大津絵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
Print Date: 11/05/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Masaoka (政岡),  Ichikawa Sadanji
II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正), and  Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi  (伽羅先代萩).

[Popular Costume Sugoroku Game] Furidashi Ishô Ninki Sugoroku (振出衣裳人気双六)

Print Date: 11/20/1912
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Image courtesy of Dr. Osamu Nagai

Note: Published by Daimaru Gofukumise (大丸呉服店).
 

5. Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
                      
Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)

 
6. Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
                      
Play: Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森), Act III of
Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Artist: Nagai Seijirô (永井清治郎)

                 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Plays: On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎); Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒);
Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Noriaibune (乗合船惠萬歳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Kiri Ouchizuke (桐大内蔵) in
On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎); Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Konaya Magoemon (粉屋孫右衛門) and
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Koharu (小春) in Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵);  Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時) in
Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒); and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) and  Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) in unknown roles.
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Gonpachi (権八)
 
Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭禮信仰記);
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森); Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Usugumo (薄雲);
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Matsubara Onio (松原鬼王), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Soga
Jûrô Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成), and  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Soga Gorô Tokimune
(曽我五郎時致) in Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); and Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門 as Kinoshita Tôkichi (木下藤吉) in Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭禮信仰記).
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Hosokawa Tadaoki no Tsuma (細川忠興の妻); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
[Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); Kuruwa no Sayaate (廓鞘當); Kiku Ningyô (菊人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/02/16
Print Date: 11/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Akoya (阿古屋) in
Kagekiyo (景清); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)
and Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Yaegahime (八重垣姫) in Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (累) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎) in [Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); and an
unidentified actor in an unknown role.
 

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as
Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Kitamura Rokurô I (喜多村緑郎; 喜多村綠郞) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/17
Print Date:  07/1917?
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Chobei (長兵衛)
 
Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/20
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #50
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                               
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
            Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
            Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
            (御存鈴ヶ森)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/03/20
            Print Date: 1921
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩) #50
            Personal Collection

                 
 
Plays: Nagori no Hoshi Zukiyo (名残の星月夜); Chiriyuku Hana Sannin Warai (散花三人笑);
Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森); Shin Nanatsu Men ( 新七ツ面)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/03/20
Print Date: 05/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani  Library
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play:  Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森), Act III of
Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#10)
Personal Collection

Note: Sumizô VI first played Gonpachi in this play in Tokyo
at the Engi-za in July 1910.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also played this role at the Shintomi-za in October 1914.
 
 
 
 

Plays:  Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Hana no Ueno Homare no Ishibumi (花上野譽碑);
Genji Eboshi (源氏烏帽子); Inazuma Zôshi (稲妻草子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/29
Print Date: 04/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Print Date: c. 1932-1933
Artist: Kojima Gyokuhô (児嶋玉鳳)
Series: [One Hundred Songs Illustrated]
Uta-e Hyakuban (歌絵百)
Music Style: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                 
Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門)
Tea house girl Koroku?
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: Sono Omokage Kuruwa no Sayaate (其俤廓鞘当)
Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Series: Gekikadô Zuihitsu (劇雅堂随筆)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 08/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛)

Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) [Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)]
Date: 1955
Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
Series: [Woodblock Prints of Famous Stories of Kabuki]
Meikyôgen; Kabuki Mokuhangashu (名狂言  歌舞伎木版画集)  Series 3
 
 
 

                   
Omachinasee (おまちなせえ)
Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Print Date: 1981
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 50)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery
 
 
 
 

? as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
?  as Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

                             
            [Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)] Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森)
 
            Play: Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
            Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 15)
            Image courtesy of www.fineartists.co.jp
 
 

Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although this print
was acquired with the
above 12 prints, it appears
to be from a different
series and maybe be by a
different artist.

 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Chôbei (長兵衛)
 
Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森 )
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Kôshirô VII performed
this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijo in June 1916, and at the
Kabuki-za in May 1920 and
May 1930, and February 1939.
           


           

                   
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Play: Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma
(浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Print Date: (Year of the Dog)
Artist: Torii Tadamune (鳥居忠宗)
Series: Ôno Shin (大野信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)                  

Play:  Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

    
Reverse side of fan, perhaps by a different artist.
 
Personal Collection


 
 
 
 

[Kabuki Jûhachiban  (歌舞伎十八番)] Sugoroku

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection

Note: Some of the panels bear a passing resemblance to the small size Kabuki Jûhachiban 
(歌舞伎十八番) prints Ota Gakô produced in 1931, but I do not feel that the resemblance
is sufficiently strong as to conclusively attribute the print to Ota.

 
Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門)

Play: Fuwa (不破)
Artist: ?