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
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
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.