Nakamura Kotarô V (中村児太郎) as
Osome (お染)

Play: Osome Hisamatsu Ukina no Yomiuri
(於染久松色読販)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/83
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kotarô V also portrayed Osome in a special
performance of Osome (お染) in August 1982 at the
Kokuritsu Gekijō.  It is possible that this print reflects
that performance.
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kotarô V (中村児太郎) as
Ôshû (逢州)

Play: Soga Moyô Tateshi no Goshozome
(曾我綉侠御所染)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/84
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
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Play: See below.
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 8-25, 1999
Print Date: 1999
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of Chûjôhime Koseki no
Matsu (中将姫古跡の松), Shinkei Kasane-ga-Fuchi (真景累ヶ淵),
Tomo Yakko (供奴), Shinpan Ukina no Yomiuri (新版色読販),
and Iro Moyô Chotto Karaimane (色彩間苅豆).  It starred
Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (沢村宗十郎;  澤村宗十郎), Nakamura
Shikan VII (中村芝翫), Nakamura Fukusuke IX (中村福助),
Nakamura Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助), Bandô Yajûrô,
Matsumoto Kôemon I (松本幸右衛門), and Sawamura
Tetsunosuke V (沢村鉄之助;  澤村鐵之助).  Nakamura
Hashinosuke III (中村橋之助(3代目) played the Yakko (奴)
in Tomo Yakko (供奴).  It is possible the the poster depicts
Nakamura Fukusuke IX (中村福助), as Osome.in Shinpan
Ukina no Yomiuri (新版色読販),