OCTOBER 1934

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as 
Onatsu (お夏; 緒夏; おなつ)

Play:  Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/34
Print Date: 1935
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection (#159/500)

Note:  This print was commissioned after Baikô VI's death.
It is possible that it was issued in the same wrapper as the
Baikô VI shini-e  shown below.  Baikô VI first performed
the role of Onatsu in September 1914 at the Teikoku
Gekijô in Tokyo.  He is also known to have performed the
role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in October 1921,
October 1925, and June 1930.  It is possible that this
print is based on one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 
 

                   
Kasane no Budai, Shôwa Kyûnen Jûgatsu Kabuki-za (かさねの舞台昭, 昭和九年十月歌舞伎座)

Play: Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/34
Print Date: 10/1934
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)

Note: Although Hasui may not have known the actors when he designed the set, Yoemon (与右衛門) was portrayed by Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) and Kasane (かさね) was portrayed by Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) in this production.

                    
Plays: Toyotomi Sandaiki (豊臣三代記); Kataoka Ichizô [V] Shûmei Hirô/Kôōjô (片岡市蔵襲名披露/口上);
Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki  (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱); Yuki no Wataridori (雪の渡り鳥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/34
Print Date: 10/1934?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library