AUGUST 1927

                   
Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郞; 沢田正二郎) as
Hayashi Buhei (林武平)

Play: Tsurugi (劔; 剱; 釼)
Performance Place:  Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/17/27
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#27)
*Personal Collection

Note:  Depending on the precise publication date of this
print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print after
Shôjirô's performance at the Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo,
 in March 1927.
 
 
 

                    
Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郞; 沢田正二郎) as Shinsengumi Kondô Isami (新撰組近藤勇)
 
Plays: Shinsengumi (新撰組); Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉); Kenkaku Shobai (劔客商賣)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/1927
Print Date: 08/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:Shinkokugeki 10th anniversary performance.