NOVEMBER 1928

                   
Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as Okaru (お軽)


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura 
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/28
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#16)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Shûchô III died on September 22,
1935 at age 56.  He first played the role of Okaru in
Tokyo in April 1912, and his final Tokyo appearance in
this role was in November 1928 at the  Shinjuku
Shinkabuki-za. This print, however, closely resembles
a photograph from the November 1928 production at
the Hongô-za.
 
 
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/1928
Print Date: 11/1928?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Fujiwara Tokihira (藤原時平)

Play: Shihei Kochi Nana Warai (時平公七笑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#22)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.   Utaemon V died on September 12,
1940 at age 76.
 
 

                    
Plays: Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); Kioi Jishi Minori no Iwai (勢獅子大典奉祝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Concert: [Mr. [Benno] Moiseiwitsch's Grand Piano Concert] Moiseiwitsch-Shi Yôkin Ōensôkai 
(モイセイウィッチ氏洋琴大演奏會)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/28-29/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum