APRIL 1951

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 07/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: To the extent that a keyblock was used for
this print, it is a different keyblock that that used
for the 1951 version.
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 10/1988
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a later printing in a smaller size made
under the auspices of the Kushigatachô Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.
 
 
  

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#4)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Utaemon VI first performed the role of Hanako in
connection with his shûmei at the Kabuki-za  in April and
May of 1951.  (He had, however, played the role previously
under the names of Nakamura Shikan VI and  Nakamura Fukusuke VI.)
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Tabakoya Genshichi (煙草屋源七)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 12/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)  as
Oginoya Yaegiri-go ni Yamanba (萩の家八重桐後に山姥)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 10/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Yakko (槍奴)

Play: [Oharame] Kuniiri Yakko ([大原女] 國入奴)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 03/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
Yuki Jorô Shinan (雪女郎信濃)

Play: Yuki Jorô (雪女郎)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 12/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
Yuki Jorô Shinan (雪女郎信濃)

Play: Yuki Jorô (雪女郎)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 12/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of  Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)

Note: Color variant.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 08/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum