FEBRUARY 1923
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前)
Play: Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前)
Performance Place: 02/04/23
Performance Date: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Plays: Iwato Danmari (岩戸だんまり); Shinman Engi (指鬘縁起); Hitoritabi no
On'na (一人旅の女);
Seigen Sakura-hime Keisei Iriai Zakura (清玄櫻姫傾城入相櫻); Tantei Kidan
Jyochû Nan (探偵奇譚女中難)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/23
Print Date: 02/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郎; 沢田正二郎) as
Tsukue Ryûnosuke (机龍之助)
Play: Daibosatsutôge (大菩薩峠)
Performance Place: Kôen Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/31/23; 03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
Note: It is possible that this print represents a later
performance by Shôjirô, though I have not been able
to locate a later performance in Tokyo.
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎 ) as
Ryûnoksuke (龍之助)
Play: Daibosatsutôge (大菩薩峠)
Performance Place: Kôen Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/31/23; 03/01/23
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#B]
Personal Collection
Note: It is possible that this print
represents a later performance
by Shôjirô, though I have not been
able to locate a later performance
in Tokyo. The envelope for Set #B is
shown in the Chikamine entry for July
1924.
Plays: Dansu (ダンス); Bararaika Ensô (バラライカ演奏); Shamisen Dokusô
(三味線独奏)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/24-25/23
Print Date: 02/1923?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: This was primarily a dance recital with some balalaika and
shamisen interludes (which I
have not bothered to individually name). The female star
dancer was Anna Pavlova.
Plays: Dansu (ダンス); Bararaika Ensô (バラライカ演奏); Shamisen Dokusô
(三味線独奏)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/24-25/23
Print Date: 02/1923?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: This was primarily a dance recital with some balalaika and
shamisen interludes (which I
have not bothered to individually name). The female star
dancer was Anna Pavlova.