SEPTEMBER 1915

                        
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as
Arutesu [Artemis] Ôjyo (アルテス王女)

Play: Ikusagami (軍神)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Note: Another reading of "軍神" is Gunshin.
I used the "Ikusagami" reading because
that it what the database at the Ritsumeikan
 University's Art Research Center uses.
 
 
 
 

                 
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as
Arutesu [Artemis] Ôjyo (アルテス王女)
 
Play: Ikusagami (軍神)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as
Arutesu [Artemis] Ôjyo (アルテス王女)
 
Play: Ikusagami (軍神)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Version that includes more prominent billing for Kawakami Sadayakko.
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)  as
Taira Tomomori (平知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 09/1915
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Zôhô Momoyama Monogatari
(増補桃山譚)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Matsude Seifû (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao) 
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Zôhô Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 09/1915?
Artist: ?

Note: Although lacking any information about the
subject or the artist, the print's resemblance to Seifû's
print of Sadanji II as Goemon is unmistakable. 
However,this might also be by an anonymous artist
copying the Seifû print.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)


Play: Zôhô Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Matsude Seifû (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyu Shinza (髪結新三)

Play: Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge
(蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
 

Kawai Takeo (可合武雄) as Okisa (おきさ)
 
Play: Imamiya Shinjû (今宮心中)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/15
Print Date: 09/15?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as
Teshiro Jirôbei (手代二郎兵衛)
 
Play: Imamiya Shinjû (今宮心中)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/15
Print Date: 09/15?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Takechi Jûbee Mitsuhide (武智十兵衛光秀)

Play: Taikôki Onna Bunshô (太功記婦女文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
 
Play: Taikôki On'na Bunshô (太功記婦女文章); Tôrô Daijin (燈籠大臣); Akunin (悪人);
Mitsu no Nagame Sugata no Irodori (三景眺容艶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 09/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum