DECEMBER 1924

               
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Okaru (おかる; 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: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô II also portrayed Okaru in the Michiyuki
Tabiji no Hanamuko (道行旅路花聟) [Ochiudo (落人)]
dance interlude between Acts IV and V of Kanadehon
Chûshingura at the Hongô-za in March 1924.   I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects Shôchô II's
March 1924 performance.
 
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) 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: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 7
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Ichimura Kamezô III (市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Kaoyo (顔世)
 
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Takano Moronao (高野師直)
 
Ichikawa Sumizo VI (市川寿美蔵) as Momoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)
 
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Okaru (おかる)
 
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Kataoka Ichizō IV (片岡 市蔵) as En'ya Hangan (塩谷判官)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                        
  Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵)
  as Kichisa (吉三)

   Play:  Oshichi Kichisa
   (お七吉三)
   Performance Place:  Hōgaku- za,
   Tokyo
   Performance Date: 12/1924
   Print Date: ?
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover
 
   Note: Omezô IV also performed
   the role of Obô Kichisa in Sannin
   Kichisa  (三人吉三) at the
   Mitsukoshi  Gekijô in February
   1948.                

                    
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takatoki (高時)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Maruyama Ôkyo (圓山應擧)
 
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Komai Genki (駒井源琦)
 
Plays: Ôkyo to Rosetsu (應擧と蘆雪); Takatoki (高時); Kashiko ki Baka (賢き馬鹿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/06/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum