OCTOBER 1912

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Benkei (弁慶)
           
Play: Ataka no Seki (安宅の関)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/08/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)    
           
Play: Chûshingura Kudanme (忠臣蔵九段目), Act 9 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Toyko
Performance Date: 10/16/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

                 
 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nasa no Yogoro (那須与五郎)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Yaheibyôe Munekiyo (弥平兵衛宗清)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Tamamushi (玉蟲)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Takakoto (玉琴)
 
Plays: Heikegani (史劇平家蟹); Chûshingura Kudanme (忠臣蔵九段目), Act 9 of Kanadehon
Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵) ; Kuni Zakai (國境); Oshun Denbê
Mukashigatamatsu Shirafuji (お俊傳兵衞昔形白藤); Gisei (犠牲); Katô Saemon (加藤左衞門);
Mitsu Uroko (三ツ鱗)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/16/12
Print Date: 10/1912
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘)
 
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Hirai Yasumasa (平井保昌)
 
Plays: Yûshô no Tsuma (勇将の妻); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Hiyokuzuka Obana Teranishi
(比翼塚尾花寺西); Go Henka (五変化)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/12
Print Date: 10/25/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

               

Plays: Tsuchigumo (土蜘); ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo; ?
Performance Date: 10/25/12; ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 150 (Dec. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The back cover title references Yoshio Oishi's retreat in
Yamashina, which could relate to the production of  Go Taiheiki
Shiroishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺) at the Waseda-za in November
1912, or to one of the productions of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵) that played at the Tokyo-za,
Engeki-za, or Miyato-za in November 1912.
 
 

               

Play: Sanada Yukimura (真田幸村)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/08/12
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 149 (Nov. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Ataka no Seki (安宅関)     
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/08/12
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 149 (Nov. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji [II] (市川左團次) as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥; 丸橋忠彌)

Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/08/12
Artist: Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 6, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California