MARCH 1927

                   
Ichikawa Kigan V (市川鬼丸) as
Otomi (お富; おとみ)

Play:  Genjidana (源氏店), Act 3 of  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛; 與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/27
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#22)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kigan V first portrayed Otomi in Tokyo at the Miyato-
za in July 1908.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Kigan V's June 1916 performance at the Miyato-za
or June 1921 performance at the Kanda Gekijô.
 
 
 
 

       
        Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
        (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
        Masaoka (政岡)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 03/07/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
        Image courtesy of Gary
        Christenson

       
        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎)
        as Takatoki (髙時)

        Play: Takatoki (髙時)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 03/04/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
        Image courtesy of Gary
        Christenson

       
        Sawada Shôjirô
        (澤田正二郎; 沢田正二郎) as
        Hazama Shinroku (間新六)

        Play:  Gishi Hazama Shinroku
        (義士間新六)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 03/01/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
        Image courtesy of Gary
        Christenson

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as
        Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

        Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi
        (雪暮夜入谷畦道), covering Act IV,
        Scenes 1 and 2 of Kumo ni Magô
        Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 03/01/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
        Image courtesy of Gary
        Christenson
 
       

                    
Plays: Shirano Benjûrô (白野辨十郎); Gishi Hazama Shinroku (義士間新六)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

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; Madam
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10-29/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

Plays: Shichi Kiochi (七騎落);  Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); Takatoki (高時); 
Tsuzura Ori (九十九折); Wakanoura (和歌の浦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/04/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

Plays: Shichi Kiochi (七騎落);  Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); Takatoki (高時);
Tsuzura Ori (九十九折); Wakanoura (和歌の浦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/04/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum