NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1924

                   
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴)  as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Horikawa Gosho (堀川御所), Act I, Scene 3 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/24
Print Date: 1926
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#16)
*Personal Collection
 
Note: Shikaku II also performed this role at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za, Tokyoin January 1926.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)

Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: 1928
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
;(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#31)
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)

Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: 1928
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Personal Collection

Note: Color variant.
 
 
  

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)

Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: ?
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a later printing in a smaller size.
 
 
  

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)

Play: Yamashina Kankyo (山科閑居), Act IX of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/24
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#8)
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XI first played this role at the Kabuki-za
in October 1917 and reprised the role at the Kabuki-za in
October 1921.  It is possible that Shunsen based this print
on one of those earlier performances.