OCTOBER 1922

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpo (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô also performed this play at the Shintomi-za in
Tokyo in November 1922, but I assume that Kanpo, a Kyoto
artist, saw it in Osaka.  It is also possible that it was
performed in  Kyoto somewhere around this same time.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpo (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a color variant test print lacking a mica background.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)  as
Yaegiri of the Hagino Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐 )
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rônin Gotô Genjirô (浪人後藤源次郎)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Rônin Isogai Kazuma (浪人磯貝數馬)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Shirabyôshi Sakurako jitsu ha Kyôgen-shi Sakon (白拍子桜子 実ハ狂言師左近)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami (石見)
 
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: [The Brothers Karamazov] Karamâzofu Kyôdai (カラマーゾフ兄弟)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01-10/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed?  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助)
as Chidori (千鳥)
 
Play: Heike Nyogoshima
(平家女護島) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za,
Tokyo       
Performance Date: 09/30/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
Note: It is possible that this print
depicts Fukusuke IV or V as
Chidori in a different play.