NAKAMURA DENKURÔ VI (中村伝九郎)
08/12/1859 - 07/20/1923

aka NAKAMURA SHIKAKU I (中村芝鶴)

Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as Akechi Mitsuhide (明智光秀)

Play: Renga Awase Futami Bundai (連歌合二見文台)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/10/02
Print Date: 07/1902
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 

Play: Koko ga Edo Koude no Tatehiki
(茲江戸小腕達引)
Performance Place: Asakusa-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1902
Print Date: 09/14/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  The National Theatre of Japan's
website also lists the play Hana no
Ueno Homare no Ishibumi
(花上野誉碑), which presumably
relates to another play on the same
bill and relates to the second image.
 
 
 

  Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as
  Ude no Kisaburô (腕の喜三郎)

   Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as
   Bôtarô Uba Otsuji (坊太郎乳母おつじ)

                 
Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono 
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka no Keshô Kagami (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I as Ii Kamon-no-Kami
Naotaka (井伊掃部頭直孝) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者); Onoe Eizaburô VI
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房) in Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Umegawa (傾城梅川) and Jitsukawa Enjirô I
(実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I as Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来).
 
 

Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as
Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #3
Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴?) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1919
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 

       
        Nakamura Denkurô VI  (中村伝九郎) as ?
 
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: c. 1919-1920
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
        (千代 栄劇彩)
        Image courtesy of Artelino.com

            
            Nakamura  Denkurô VI
            (中村伝九郎; 中村傳九郎)?  as
            Genroku (権六)
           
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: c. 1919-1920
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

            Note: Since Denkurô VI assumed that
            name in May 1919, the print would have
            been produced on or after that date.  It
            is possible that the play is Kanadehon
            Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵).
 
 

Nakamura Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1919
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection