MARCH 1926

                   
Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Kajiwara Genta Kagesue (梶原源太景季)

Play: Hirakana  Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記; ひらがな盛衰記 )
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/26
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#28)
*Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play:  Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/26
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#35)
*Personal Collection

               
Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as Ôishi Chikara (大石主稅)

Play: Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/26
Print Date: 08/01/26
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 20) (三十六家選 (その廿))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 5, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection.
 
 
 
 

                    
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田 正二郎)  as Ii Tairô (井伊大老)
 
Play: Ii Tairô no Shi (井伊大老の死)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/26
Print Date: 03/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                                   
                    Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郎; 沢田正二郎) as Ii Tairô (井伊大老)

                    Play: Ii Tairô no Shi (井伊大老の死)
                    Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 03/01/26
                    Print Date: 02/01/27
                    Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
                    Medium: Machine printed lithograph
                    Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 26) (三十六家選 (その廿六))
                    Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
                    Vol. 6, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1927)
                    Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madame
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda; Faust 
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/10-29/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

                                   
                    Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Kyôko京子

                    Play: Daini no Seppun (第二の接吻)
                    Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
                    Performance Date: 03/01/26
                    Print Date: 03/01/27
                    Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
                    Medium: Machine printed lithograph
                    Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 27) (三十六家選 (その廿七))
                    Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
                    Vol. 6, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1927)
                    Personal Collection