PAUL BINNIE

 1998

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)




Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1997 - 01/1998
Print Title: Ebizori (えび反)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#47/50)

Note:  This print would seem to have been based on a
special gala performance or a prior broadcast recording of
Tamasaburô V's performance.  Tamasaburô V's last regular
performance as Sumizome prior to the creation of this print
that I could find was at the Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo, in
January 1991 before Binnie arrived in Tokyo.  He also
performed the role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo in March
1981, the Minami-za, Kyoto, in March 1976, and at the
 Teikoku Gekijō, Tokyo, in December 1972.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)




Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1997
Print Title: Ebizori (えび反)
Personal Collection

Note:  This is a variant test print.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Keisei Umegawa (傾城梅川)

Nakamura Ganjirô III (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chūbei (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  05/1997- 01/1998
Print Title: Utaemon to Ganjirô - Ninokuchi mura
(歌右衛門 と鴈治郎 - 新口村)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#3/100)

Note:  This print would seem to have been based on a special
gala performance or else is an imagined composite design. 
There is otherwise no known regular performance that featured
both Utaemon VI and Ganjirô III in these roles at the same time.
Utaemon VI's last regular performance as Umegawa that I could
find was at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in January 1985.  Ganjirô III,
however, performed the role of Chūbei during Binnie's time in
Japan in a production at the Kabuki-za in November 1994
(opposite Nakamura Matsue V).