DECEMBER 1917

Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as
Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #3
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川勝元)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #3
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #3
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Yorikane (頼兼)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #3
Personal Collection

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Menoto Masaoka (乳人政岡)

Play:  Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place:  Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/1917
Print Date:  1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Hyôban Rien Tansei (評判梨園丹青)
Courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Utaemon V first portrayed Masaoka in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in April 1914.  He also reprised the role at the
Kabuki-za in April 1920.  Depending on when this print
was published, it is possible that this print depicts one of
these other performances.  Based on the other known\
print by Fujisawa in this series, it is also possible that
it depicts some performance outside of Tokyo.

Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Yayoi (弥生)
 
Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言) Set #3
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Fukusuke V
            (中村福助) as Yayoi (弥生)
 
            Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
            Performance Place: Meiji-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 12/01/17
            Print Date: 12/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)      
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shinmyô Owasa (針妙おわさ)

Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Utaemon V also performed this role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in
February 1920.  It is therefore possible that this print reflects Utaemon
V's 1920 performance.
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

                 
 
Plays: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Aikokusha (愛國者); Banchô Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (戀飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum