FEBRUARY 1926

                   
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanpei Harakiri (勘平腹切), Act 6 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/26
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) (#11)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Some authorities date this print to 1925, but I have found
no record of Eizaburô VII performing this role prior to February
1926.
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵)
as Yasuke (弥助)

Play: "Sushiya" Act III, Scene III of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1926
Print Date:  02/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Sumizô VI also portrayed Yasuke in a production at
the Hongô-za in March 1923.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance.

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II  (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/26
Print Date:  02/1926?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II also performed this role at the Hōgaku-za in
November 1924.   I cannot rule out the possibility that this
print reflects that performance.

Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)

Play: Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/1926
Print Date: 1926?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

           
            [Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
            Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
            Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
            [Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
            (直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
            尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
            Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
            Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
            Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
            Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

            Print Date: 1926?
            Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)

            Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
            stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
            by Shikô in the 1920s. 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)

Play: Shochikubai Yushima no Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/1926
Print Date: 05/01/26
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei to Eiga (演藝と映画), Vol. 1, No. 2 (May 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Osato (お里)

Play: Sushiya (鮓屋), Act 3, Scene III of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 02/02/26
Print Date: 06/01/26
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 6 (June 1, 1926)
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Chin Jin Shie (陳仁謝)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Chôshirô (長四郎)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kawai Ikujirô (河合幾次郎)
 
Plays: Yashamaru (夜叉丸); Koshin to Enba (小しんと焉馬); Gakuyaguchi (楽屋口);
Tôjinzuka (唐人塚); Haru Chikashi (春近し)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum