Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Akutarô (悪太郎)
Play: Akutarô (悪太郎)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/52
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gakô (太 田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#8)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Ennosuke II first played the role of Akutarô in this
play in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in June 1924. If the
publication date of this print precedes Ennosuke II's
final Tokyo performance in December 1952, then Gakô
would have based this print on Ennosuke II's penultimate
Tokyo performance at the Shinjuku Daiichi Gekijô in
June 1944. or else on some other prior performance.