KAWARASAKI CHÔJÛRÔ IV (河原崎長十郎)
 12/13/1902 - 09/22/1981

                    
Kawarasaki Chôjûrô IV (河原崎長十郎) as Narukami Jônin (鳴神上人)
  
Plays:  Hatsukoi (初恋); Engeki Eiga Kenkyû Tokoro Kansei o Aisatsu (演劇映画研究所完成御挨拶);
Narukami (鳴神); Hyakutarô Sawagi (百太郎騒ぎ)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/37
Print Date: 06/1937?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
 
 

Kawarasaki Chôjûrô IV (河原崎長十郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)



Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo,
Performance Date: 03/1939
Print Date: 03/1939?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Personal Collection

Note: Chôjûrô IV first portrayed Benkei in this play in Tokyo at the
Shinbashi Enbujô in November 1933.  He also  performed this role
in Tokyo with Kanemon III and Kunitarô V at the Shinbashi Enbujô
in November 1936 and June 1965, the Kokusai Gekijô in November
1939, and the Kyôritsu Kôdô in May 1950.  While I cannot rule out
the possibility that Kiyokata based this print on one of these
performances, the print closely resembles a photograph from the
1939 production.
 
 
 
 

                    
Kawarasaki Chôjûrô IV (河原崎長十郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助 )
  
Play:  Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/39
Print Date: 06/1939?
Artist: Torii Kotondo (鳥居言人)
Medium: Woodblock printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library