OCTOBER 1925

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as 
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also performed
the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) at
the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is possible that this print
reflects Uzaemon XV's performance in that later production.

               
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Nippon Daemon (日本駄右衛門)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also
performed the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô
(弁天小僧) at the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is
possible that this print reflects Chûsha VII's performance
in that later production.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Nangô Rikimaru (南郷力丸)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also
performed the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô
(弁天小僧) at the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is
possible that this print reflects Sadanji II's performance in
that later production.

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also
performed the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô
(弁天小僧) at the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is
possible that this print reflects Uzaemon XV's performance
in that later production.

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nichiren (日蓮)

Play:  Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Saibôzu Nishizumi (斉坊主西住)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Koume (小梅)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Hirano Saemon-no-jô (平ノ左衛門尉) 
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nichiren (日蓮)
 
Plays: Nichiren Shônin (日蓮上人); Onatsu Kyôran (おなつ狂乱); Koume to Yoshibê (小梅と由兵衛);
Nijûshikô Kitsunebi (廿四孝狐火)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/25
Print Date: 10/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum