FEBRUARY 1916

                    
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋次兵衛)               

Play: Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵), a version of Act II of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 1916
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

                 
 
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
 
 

               
                Jitsukawa Enjaku II
                (実川延若; 實川延若) as
                Furuteya Hachirobê (古手屋八郎兵衛)

                Play: Kane Morotomo Urami no Samezaya
                (鐘もろとも恨鮫鞘),
                Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 02/06/16
                Print Date: 02/1916?
                Artist: Matsude Seifû (松田青風)
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
                Personal Collection

                Note:  Enjaku II I also portrayed
                Hachirobê in an August 1926 production
                at the Kabuki-za.  Stylistically, however,  
                it more closely resembles Seifû's Yakusha-e
                prints of 1915 than his later Nigao-e prints.

                 
 
Plays: Hinazuru Sanbasô (雛鶴三番叟); Hikô Geigi (飛行藝妓); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記);
Iden (遺傳); Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Masukotto [La Mascotte] (マスコット)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/26/16
Print Date: 012/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Inaba Kôzô (稲葉幸蔵) and
 
Onoe Kikujirô III  (尾上菊次郎) as 
Matsuyama (松山)
      
Play: Nezumi Komon Harugi no
Shingata (鼠小紋春着新形)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection