FEBRUARY 1929

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Act V of Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/29
Print Date: [1929]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Kanpei in
Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in June 1905.  He reprised this role
at the Kabuki-za in November 1907, at the Ichimura-za in
November 1910, at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1926,
and at the Hongô-za in April 1926.  For a similar, but later
portrait, see the entry for November 1947.
 
 
 

Plays:  [The Cherry Orchard] Sakura no Sono (櫻の園)
Performance Place: Tsukiji Shôgekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/02-21/29
Print Date: 02/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? flyer art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum