AKUJYÔ NO KYÔJIN
(屋上の狂人)

                   
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘彌) as
Kyôjin [Madman] Katsushima Yoshitarô (勝島義太郎)
 
Play: Akujyô no Kyôjin (屋上の狂人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/21
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan
 
Note: There was a second production of Akujyô no Kyôjin in Tokyo
that opened on June 21, 1921 at the Meiji-za.  Sawada Shôjirô
(澤田正二郎) played the main role in that production.  Depending
on the month when this print was made, I cannot rule out the pos-
sibility that it depicts Sawada Shôjirô and not Morita Kany'a XIII.  
However, based on a photo-postcard I have found, I believe it
depicts Kany'a XIII.
 
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Takiguchi Tokiyori (瀧口時頼); Akujyô no Kyôjin (屋上の狂人); Shinjû Ten no Amijima
(心中天網島); Sekenmizu (世間見ず)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/01/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts  Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Takiguchi Tokiyori (瀧口時頼) in
Takiguchi Tokiyori (瀧口時頼).; and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)
in Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島).