KAMISHITA SHUHÔ (神下周峯)
aka KAMISHITA CHIKAMINE (神下周峯)

  1924

           
Envelope design for Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙)
#8
 
Print Date: ?
Artist:  Kamishita Shuhô (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) #8
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Tokyo       
Performance Date: 05/03/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #8
Personal Collection

       
        Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
        市川左團次) as
        Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

        Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
        Performance Place: Asakusa
        Shôchiku-za, Tokyo       
        Performance Date: 05/03/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        matchbook cover
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
        Note: It is possible that this print is
        not by Shuhô's but a knock-off of
        Shuhô's print.  Presumably, it was
        issued around the time of Shuhô's
        pochibukuro.

       
        Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
        Matsudaira Izu-no-Kami (松平伊豆守) 
       
        Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
        Performance Place: Asakusa
        Shôchiku-za, Tokyo       
        Performance Date: 05/03/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #8
        Personal Collection

       
        Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
        Matsudaira Izu-no-Kami (松平伊豆守) 
       
        Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
        Performance Place: Asakusa
        Shôchiku-za, Tokyo       
        Performance Date: 05/03/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        matchbook cover
        Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
        Note: It is possible that this print is
        not by Shuhô's but a knock-off of
        Shuhô's print.  Presumably, it was
        issued around the time of Shuhô's
        pochibukuro.

       
        Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
        Nyôbô Osetsu (女房おせつ)
        
        Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
        Performance Place: Asakusa
        Shôchiku-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 05/03/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #8
        Personal Collection

Envelope design for Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #3

Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous
Actors of Today] Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #3
Personal Collection

       
        Ichkawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
         市川左團次) as
        Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za,
        Tokyo    
        Performance Date: 06/06/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #3
        Personal Collection

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as
        Yashio (八汐)
      
        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za,
        Tokyo     
        Performance Date: 06/06/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #3
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: Uzaemon XV also performed
        this role at the Shintomi-za in April
        1923 with Nakamura Utaemon V
        (中村 歌右衛門) as Masaoka
        (政岡) when Shuhô was
        active as a print designer.  I
        cannot rule out the possibility
        that this print reflects that
        performance.
 
 
 

Envelope design for Tôsei Meiyû
Omokage Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙)
#10

Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #10
Personal Collection

       
        Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵) as
        Sasano Sangobê (笹野三五兵衛) 
       
        Play: Imayô Satsuma Uta (今様薩摩歌)
        Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-
        za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/06/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #10
        Personal Collection

       
        Ichkawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
         市川左團次) as
        Satsuma Gengobê (薩摩源五兵衛;
        薩摩源吾兵衛)
        
        Play: Imayô Satsuma Uta (今様薩摩歌)
        Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-
        za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/06/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #10
        Personal Collection

       
        Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
        Oman (おまん)
        
        Play: Imayô Satsuma Uta (今様薩摩歌)
        Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-
        za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/06/24
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #10
        Personal Collection

       
         Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
         Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

        Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
        Performance Place: Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/16/1924
        Print Date: 1924?
        Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
        Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村 歌右衛門) as Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo      
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) #3
Personal Collection
 
Note: Utaemon V also performed
this role at the Shintomi-za in April
1923 with Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Yashio (八汐)
when Shuhô was active as a
print designer.  I cannot rule out
the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.