APRIL 1924

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 04/01/24
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
 

[New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)

Print Date: 10/05/24
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko?
Performance Date: 04/01/24?
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kichiemon I performed this role in Tokyo six times
between 1902 and 1924
 
 
 
 

 
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Shôchiku-za, Asakusa
Performance Date: 04/05/24
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Fukusuke V also performed this role at the Meiji-
za in May 1923.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this
image depicts that performance.
 
 
 
 

 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as 
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

Play: Hakata Kojoro Nami Makura (博多小女郎浪枕)
Performance Place: Shôchiku-za, Asakusa
Performance Date: 04/1924
Print Date: 10/05/24
Artist: ?
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Title: [New Edition Actor Portrait Sugoroku] Shinpan
Haiyû Nigao Sugoroku (新版俳優似顔双六)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                       
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

        Play: Koi Minato Hakata no Hitofushi (戀湊博多諷)
        Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
        Performance Date: 04/1924
        Print Date: 05/01/24
        Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
        Medium: Machine printed lithograph
        Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
        Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1, 1924)
        Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

Play: Koi Minato Hakata no Hitofushi (恋湊博多諷)
Performance Place: Shôchiku-za, Asakusa
Performance Date: 04/05/24
Print Date: 10/01/27
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 6, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection