JUNE 1927

                   
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と与三郎), a version of 
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1927
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#8)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Matsusuke IV died on September 5,
1928 at age 86.  He first played the role of Kômori Yasu
in Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in September 1892.  Although Matsusuke
IV's last Tokyo appearance in this role was in June 1927,it
is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Matsusuke IV's prior performances in that play or in
"Kirare Otomi."
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Otomi to Yosaburô (お富と與三郎); Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (壽靱猿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Fukusuke V as (中村福助) as
Omitsu (おみつ; お光)

Play:  Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place:  Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/27
Print Date:  06/1927?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Personal Collection

Plays: Shibata Katsuie (柴田勝家); Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Botan Toki (牡丹燈記); Hishaku Zake (柄杓酒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Shibata Katsuie (柴田勝家); Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Botan Toki (牡丹燈記); Hishaku Zake (柄杓酒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Tsukiyukihana Nagori no Bundai (雪花名残文台); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Yakudoshi (厄年)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover