MARCH 1923

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection

                
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Abe no Yasuna (阿倍保名; 安倍保名)

Play: Yasuna (保名)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Mori Shunchô (森春鳥)/Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection

Note: This print designed by Shunsen's pupil Mori Shunchô
(森春鳥) with assistance by Shunsen.  I cannot rule out the
possibility  that this print depicts Kikugorô VI as Yasuna in
a production of Kosode Monogurui (小袖物狂ひ) at the
Ichimura-za in February 1922.
 

                    
Plays: Dankyô (斷橋); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神靈矢口渡);  Yasuna (保名); Musuko (息子);
Kyôkaku Harusame Kasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                           
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/23
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this print depicts
Chûsha VII's performance at the
Minami-za, Tokyo, in November 1923
or at the Shôchiku Theatre in October
1924.

                    
Plays: Mizu to Tori (水と鳥); Koma Uri (獨樂賣); On'na to Kage (女と影);
Makudara no Mariya (マクダラのマリヤ); Gohiki Kanjinchô (御摂勧進帳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/26-28/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: [The Gondoliers] Gondora Tekishu (ゴンドラ擢手); [The Pirates of Penzance]
Penzansu no Kaizoku (ペンザンスの海賊); [The Chocolate Soldier] Chokorêto Heitai
(チョコレート兵隊);  [Merrie England] Merî Ingurando (メリー・イングランド); [Katinka] Kateinka
(カティンカ); [Trial By Jury] Baishin Kan no Shinmon (陪審官の審問); [H.M.S. Pinafore] Gunkan Pinafoa
(軍艦ピナフォア); [Grand Revue] Gurando Rebyû (グランド・レビュー); [The Imperial Guard's Soldier]
Kineitai no Heishi (禁衛隊の兵士); [[Iolanthe] Senjyo Ioranse (仙女イオランセ); [The Milkmaid Patience]
Chichi Shibori Musume Pêshennu (乳搾娘ペエシェンヌ)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/25/23 - 04/02/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the D'Oyle Carte Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Co.