NOVEMBER 1953

                   
Bandô Minosuke VI (坂東簑助; 坂東蓑助; 坂東衰助) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/53
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Print Date: 11/1953
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1953
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I can find no record of Nizaemon XIII performing
this role in the relevant time period.   He did not appear in
November 1953 production at the Teikoku Gekijô with
Minosuke VI, the subject of a contemporaneous print by
Shunsen.
 
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1953
Print Date: c. 1970s
Artist: Hasegawa Noboru (長谷川昇)
Personal Collection (#46/100)

Note: Utaemon VI also performed Musume Dôjôji at the
Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo, in March 1953, so it is
conceivable that the original painting underlying this
print was based on that performance.