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. 
 

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