June 1919

JUNE 1919

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Midaroku ( 弥陀六)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
            Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: This design was posthumously
            reissued in a slightly different color
            scheme when Kichiemon I reprised this
            role at the Shintomi-za in March 1922.

                Nakamura Kichiemon I
                (中村吉右衛門) as
                Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

                Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋),
                Act III, Scene 3 of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
                Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 06/05/19
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
                (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
                Dainihen Series 2
                (歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #7
                Personal Collection

                Note: Kichiemon I also performed this
                role at the Ichimura-za in February 1916.

            Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
            Yoshitsune (義経)

            Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
            (一谷嫩軍記)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/05/19
            Print Date: 06/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #1]
Personal Collection

Note: This print is not signed, but
the artist of certain other pochibukuro in
the set has been identified as Fujisawa,
and a signed postcard version exists.

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Megumi no Kenka (め組の喧嘩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義經)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 07/01/19
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 13, No. 7 (July 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of the University of California

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義經)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 1919?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts

Note: This print is either by
Shunsen or is a knock-off of
Shunsen's 1919 print.

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/01/27
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei to Eiga (演藝と映画), Vol. 2, No. 6
(June 1, 1927)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a lithographic reproduction of a 1920 woodblock print by
Kôka. Matsusuke IV reprised this role at the Ichimura-za in Tokyo in
July 1924 and perhaps subsequently performed this role regionally,
which might explain why it was included in this magazine.

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ôgushi Jirô (大串次郎)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamate Gozen (玉手御前)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Gorôji (雷五郎次)

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as Minosuke (巳之助)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Umeyoshi (梅吉)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Banjaku Ishimatsu (磐石石松)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Dôgen (道玄)

Plays: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶); Sesshû Gappô-ga-Tsuji (州合邦辻);
Kamakura Bushi (鎌倉武士)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Play: Yoake Mae (夜明前)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/19
Print Date: 07/01/19
Artist: Hiraoka Gonhachirô (平岡權八郎筆)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University