FEBRUARY 1935

                   
Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#28)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Baigyoku III died on March 18, 1948
at age 74.  There is no record of Baigyoku III having
performed the role of Masaoka in Tokyo.  He did, however,
reprise the role at the Osaka Kabuki-za in May 1943, but
the print more closely resembles a photograph from the
February 1935 production.
 
 
 
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Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as Takechiyo

? as [Masaoka's son]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
 (歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

                 
Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as [Masaoka's child]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

               
Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Play:  Nijô-jô no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection