November 1917

NOVEMBER 1917

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
(?) Daigaku (? (大学))

Play: Kiyomasa no Musume (清正の娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #2

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tadahiro Imôto Mitsue (忠広妹光枝)

Play: Kiyomasa no Musume (清正の娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #2
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Ya-no-Ne (矢の根)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #2
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sanshô V
(市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎)

Play: Ya-no-Ne (矢の根)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 04/15/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #7
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Mionoya Shirô (三保谷四郎)

Play: Shusse Kagekiyo (出世景清)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/1917
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #3]
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Mionoya Shirô (三保谷四郎)

Play: Shusse Kagekiyo (出世景清)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/1917
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

                Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
                Kagekiyo (景清)

                Play: Shusse Kagekiyo (出世景清)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 10/30/17
                Print Date: 04/15/18
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
                (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
                Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
                Dainihen Series 2
                (歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #7
                Personal Collection

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Kagekiyo (景清)

Play: Shusse Kagekiyo (出世景清)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 04/15/18?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎 ) as
Benkei (辨慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 05/25/18
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #8
Personal Collection

Note: Danshirô II also performed this
role at the Meiji-za in April 1918. It is
possible that this print reflects that
performance.

Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 1917?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this postcard reflects
Danshirô II's performance at the Meiji-za in
April 1918.

            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
            (松本幸四郎) as
            Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

            Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/01/17
            Print Date: 05/25/18
            Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
            (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
            Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
            Dainihen Series 2
            (歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #8
            Personal Collection

Plays: Chausuyama Gaika no Jindate (茶臼山凱歌陣立); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Onatsu Seijûrô (お夏清十郎); Takigyô Yukima no Ichikawa (薪荷雪間の市川)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Wrapper for set of 8 kabuki postcards

Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 11/03/1917
Print Date: 11/1917?
Medium: Woodblock printed wrapper
Personal Collection

Note: Four additional postcards
acquired with this set are believed
to relate to a different month's
performance at the Naka-za.

        Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
        as [Heisaku of Numazu] Numazu no
        Heisaku (沼津の平作)

        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as
        Musume Oyone (娘お米)

        Play: Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
        Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
        (伊賀越道中双六)
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Ichikawa Sadanji II
        (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
        Son Gaku (孫悟空) and Miura Arajirô
        Yoshizumi (三浦荒次郎義澄)

        Play(s): Saiyûki (西遊記);
        Kawanakajima Azuma Nishikie
        (川中島東都錦画)
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Jitsukawa Enjaku II
        (実川延若; 實川延若) as ? and
        Kibeya Jûbê (呉服屋十兵衛;
        呉服屋重兵衛)

        Play(s): ?; Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
        Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
        (伊賀越道中双六)
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
        as ?

        Kataoka Hajime (片岡一) as
        Shibakari Otome (柴刈乙女)

        Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as ?

        Play(s): ?; Numazu (沼津), Act VI of
        Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
        (伊賀越道中双六); ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: 11/03/1917
        Print Date: 11/1917?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: This was Kataoka Hajime's first
        stage appearance.