Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as
Shiraito (白糸)
Play: Taki no Shiraito (滝の白糸)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/1951
Print Date: 1955?
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#11)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Shôtarô first played the role of Shiraito in this play in
Tokyo at the Tokyo Gekijô in August 1933. Although
Shôtarô's last Tokyo appearance in this role before the
publication date of the print was in August 1951, it is
possible that Gakô based this print on one of Shôtarô's
prior performances.