FEBRUARY 1921

Ichimura Uzaemon XV  (市村羽左衛門) as
Miuranosuke (三浦之助)
 
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki
(鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This posthumous design was
originally issued in a slightly different
color scheme circa September 1918
when Uzaemon XV played this role at
the Yokohama-za.  The print is signed
"Kunimatsu," but that is believed to be
a pseudonym adopted by the publisher
to hide the fact that it recycles Kunisada    
III's original design a few months after
Kunisada's death and is not suggestive
that the artist in question was Utagawa
Kunimatsu (歌川國松).
 
 
 
 
 

                                       
                    Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as 
                    Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

                    Play: Yukashita (床下), Act II, Scene 3 of
                    Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
                    Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 01/31/21
                    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) (#34)
                    Personal Collection
 
 

L: Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Danshichi Kurobei
(団七九郎兵衛);
R: Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)
 
Play: L: Sono Sugata Danshichi Jima
(其姿団七縞);
R: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七 )
Performance Place: L: Meiji-za, Tokyo;
R: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: 04/03/21
R: 02/06/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

                   
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘彌) as
Kyôjin [Madman] Katsushima Yoshitarô (勝島義太郎)
 
Play: Akujyô no Kyôjin (屋上の狂人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/21
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan
 
Note: There was a second production of Akujyô no Kyôjin in Tokyo
that opened on June 21, 1921 at the Meiji-za.  Sawada Shôjirô
(澤田正二郎) played the main role in that production.  Depending
on the month when this print was made, I cannot rule out the pos-
sibility that it depicts Sawada Shôjirô and not Morita Kany'a XIII.  
However, based on a photo-postcard I have found, I believe it
depicts Kany'a XIII.
 
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Takiguchi Tokiyori (瀧口時頼); Akujyô no Kyôjin (屋上の狂人); Shinjû Ten no Amijima
(心中天網島); Sekenmizu (世間見ず)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習 鑑); Nichiren Shônin Kôtan Nanahyakunen
Kôso Nichiren (日蓮聖人降誕七百年高祖日蓮); Kirare Otomi (切られお富)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/16/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Plays: Sômatô (走馬燈); Utsu Muramasa (宇津村正); Wagaya (我が家); Inôgi to Dorobô (能祇と泥棒)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/15/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
Violin Recitals by Misha Elman (ミッシャ・エルマン)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/16-20/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum