NAKAMURA BAIGYOKU III (中村梅玉)
01/04/1875 - 03/18/1948

aka NAKAMURA FUKUSUKE IV (中村福助) (Takasagoya)
 

                 
[Hit Play at the Shintomi-za]
Shintomi-za Atari Kyôgen (新富座当り狂言)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Original Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Okaru (おかる)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助;  中村幅助) as
Kôbei (興兵衛)

Play: Uzuki no Momiji (卯月の紅葉)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 08/1915
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Ogawa Hyôe (小川兵衛)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
 (新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Umekawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Fukusuke IV performed this role in the
"Fûin Giri" scene at the Naniwa-za in Osaka
 in June 1916 opposite Nakamura Ganjirô I.
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助)
as [Celestial Maiden] Tennin (天女)
 
Play:  Hagoromo (羽衣)
Performance Place: 03/07/18
Performance Date: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)   
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Fukusuke IV also performed
this role at the Kabuki-za in March
1926.  Other undated senshafuda prints
from this series can be found in Eishô's
Senshafuda Set #2.

            
            Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助)
            as [Celestial Maiden] Tennin (天女)
 
            Play:  Hagoromo (羽衣)
            Performance Place: 03/07/18
            Performance Date: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)   
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Series: 盛會御禮  
            Personal Collection
 
            Note: Fukusuke IV also performed
            this role at the Kabuki-za in March
            1926.  Although the actor is not identified
            on this print, it is presumably Fukusuke IV
            based on Eishô's related senshafuda. 
            Other undated senshafuda prints
            from this series can be found in Eishô's
            Senshafuda Set #3.
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Fujinami Yukarinosuke (藤波由縁之助)
 
Play:  ?
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Komatsuya Sôshichi (小松屋宗七)

Play: Kezori (毛剃), common name for
Koi Minato Hakata no Hitofushi
(恋湊博多諷; 恋港博多諷)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 03-04/1923
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#25)
*Personal Collection

Note: I have not located a performance by Fukusuke IV in
this role in Tokyo.
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助) as
Sankatsu (三勝)

Play: Akanezome (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shôchiku Gekijô,
Kobe
Performance Date: 03/01/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #4
Personal Collection
 
 

[Kabuki Manga]

Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
*Personal Collection

Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
signatures.
 
 
  

                   
                    Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
                    Umegawa (梅川)
 
                    Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来) 
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 10/31//26
                    Publication Date: 1927
                    Artist: ?
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as Takechiyo

? as [Masaoka's son]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
 (歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#28)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Baigyoku III died on March 18, 1948
at age 74.  There is no record of Baigyoku III having
performed the role of Masaoka in Tokyo.  He did, however,
reprise the role at the Osaka Kabuki-za in May 1943, but
the print more closely resembles a photograph from the
February 1935 production.
 
 
 
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Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as [Masaoka's child]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as
Yae (八重)
 
Play: Kamo Zutsumi (加茂堤), Act I,
Scene II of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1937
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Atsumori (敦盛)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection
 
  
 

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉)
as  Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧)

Play: Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Osaka
Performance Date: 06/1947
Print Date: 06/1947?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: It is possible that this print
reflects a performance at the Tokyo
Gekijô in November 1946 or the
Minami-za in Kyoto in December
1946.
 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection
 
 

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
        (中村福助)  as ? and ?

        Play(s): ?
        Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: This postcard came with a set
        that dates to November 1917 and
        likely relates to a production performed
        in the 1917-1918 time period.

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
        (中村福助) as ?

        Play:
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: Pre-1935
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV
        (中村福助) as Okaji (お梶)

        Play: Tôjûrô no Koi
        (藤十郎の恋)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: Pre-1935
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
       
        Okaji is a character in a
        number of plays, but is most
        likely the character in Tôjûrô
        no Koi (藤十郎の恋). 
        Fukusuke IV performed this
        role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
        za in March-April 1921 and at
        the Kabuki-zain April 1928. 
        Presumably one of those
        productions toured in Osaka.
 
 
 

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII
(片岡仁左衛門); Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童); Bandô
Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎); Nakamura
Fukusuke IV  (中村福助)

Print Date: Pre-1935
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
 
 
 

       
        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎);
        Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Fukusuke IV
        (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次)

        Print Date: Pre-1935
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Inui Shinbei Hitoshi (犬江親兵衛仁)
     
Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
(南総里見八犬傳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
Ichikawa Sadanji III  (市川左団次; 市川左團次); Jitsukawa
Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若);  Nakamura Fukusuke IV
(中村福助)

Print Date: Pre-1935
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
 
 
 

       
        Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: ?; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III
        (市川左団次; 市川左團次); Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) 

        Print Date: Pre-1935
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV
        or V (中村福助) as
        Kedani Mondo (毛谷主水)
 
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

   
    Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
     (中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
 
    Play:  ?
    Performance Place: ?
    Performance Date: ?
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    senshafuda
    Personal Collection
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as
Kyô Ningyô (京人形)

Play: Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum


 
 
 

Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助)
as Kijo (鬼女)
 
Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Fukusuke V performed this role
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in December
1925.

Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV, V, or VI
        (中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)

         Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari
         no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
         Artist: ?
         Medium: Woodblock printed
         matchbook cover
   
         Note: Fukusuke V performed this
         role at the Shintomi-za in January
         1923, and Fukusuke VI performed
         this role at the Meiji-za in June 1936.
 
                      
       

            
            Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
            (中村福助) as Masaoka (政岡)

            Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
            (伽羅先代萩)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
   
            Note Fukusuke * performed
            this role at the Meiji-za in
            October 1931.