AUGUST 1925

                   
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play:  Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#14)
*Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II  first played the role of Danshichi Kurôbê in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1917.
 
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/25
Print Date:  08/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

   

       
        Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
        實川延若) as
        Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

        Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
        (夏祭浪花鑑)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 08/07/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors
        of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
        Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #8
        Personal Collection

       
        Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門)
        as Mikawaya Giheiji (三河屋儀平次)

       
        Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
        (夏祭浪花鑑)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 08/07/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
        (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors
        of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
        Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #8          
        Personal Collection

               
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
Kunisada Chûji (国定忠次; 国定忠治)

Play: Kunisada Chûji (国定忠次; 国定忠治 )
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô
Performance Date: 08/1925
Print Date:  08/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Shôjirô also portrayed Kunisada Chûji in
a production at the Ichimura-za in April 1927, as well as in a
film version released in 1925.  It is possible that this print
reflects ShôjirôI 's performance in one of those productions.

   

Sawada Shôjirô (沢田 正二郎) as Sakazaki Dewa-no-Kami Narimasa (坂崎出羽守成正), Kunisada
Chûji (國定忠次), and Zôtsukai (象つかひ)
 
Plays: Sakazaki Dewa no Kami (坂崎出羽守); Zôtsukai (象つかひ); Kunisada Chûji (國定忠次)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/01/25
Print Date: 08/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum