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: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Note: During the time that Shikô
was active, Fukusuke V also
performed this role in Kichisama
Mairu Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信) at the Shintomi-
za in January 1923, and in Oshichi
Kichisa (お七吉三) at the Hongô-
za in May 1924.  This print could
depict one of those performances.
However, this design was
reproduced as a frontispiece in a
May 1926 issue of Engei to Eiga,
making it like that it depicts the
February 1926 performance.
 
 
 

           
            [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: c. 1920s
            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.