Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fujitsubo (藤壺)
Play: Genji Monogatari (源氏物語)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1952
Print Date: 1954?
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#8)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Baikô VII first played the role of Fujitsubo in this play
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in March 1951, and again at the
Kabuki-za in October of the same year. It is possible that
Gakô based this print on one of these prior performances.