Nakamura Kotarô II (中村児太郎) as
Okoshô Yayoi (お小姓弥生)
Play: [Shunkyô] Kagami Jishi ([春興]鏡獅子)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
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Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Minoya Sankatsu (美濃屋三勝)
Play: Akane Zome (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date: 02/1917?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #6
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
APRIL 1917
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Osono (おその)
Play: Tsuchiya Chikara (土屋主税)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/06/17
Print Date: 04/1917?
Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #3
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SEPTEMBER 1917
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Konomi (小浪)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/22/17
Print Date: 10/06/17
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #2
Personal Collection
DECEMBER 1917
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Yayoi (弥生)
Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
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
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Nakamura
Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as
Yayoi (弥生)
Play:
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
Performance Place: Meiji-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium:
woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal
Collection
JULY 1918
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)
Play: Gojôbashi (五条橋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/05/18
Print Date: 07/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
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Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Takasago Yûminosuke (高砂勇美之助)
Play: Jiraiya Gôketsu Monogatari
(児雷也豪傑物語; 児雷也豪傑譚話)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/05/18
Print Date: 07/1918?
Artist: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
APRIL 1921
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Onna Umako (女馬子)
Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
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Note: This design was subsequently used in
lithographic form as a postcard.
L: Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
Yatsuhashi (八ツ橋)
R: Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Onna Umako (女馬子)
Play: L: Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame
(籠釣瓶花街酔醒);
R: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: L: ?;
R: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: ?; R: 04/03/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: I have found records of Shôchô
II performing the role of Yatsuhashi at
the Meija-za in May 1928, at the
Kabuki-za in February 1932 and
December 1934, and at the Tokyo
Gekijô in May 1937, but these seem
to be too late in time given some
of the other performance dates for
other senshafuda in this series.
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助)
as
Onna Umako (女馬子)
Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/21
Print Date: 1921?
Personal Collection
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
` Personal Collection
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)
Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: 1928
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
;(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#31)
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Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)
Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: 1928
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Personal Collection
Note: Color variant.
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Shinanoya Musume Ohan
(信濃屋娘おはん; 信濃屋娘お半)
Play: Ohan Chôemon Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami
(おはん長右衞門桂川連理柵)
Performance Place: Azabu Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10/24
Print Date: 10/1988
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Personal Collection
Note: This is a later printing in a smaller size made
under the auspices of the Kushigatachô Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
Play: Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/1924
Print Date: 05/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
OCTOBER 1924
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Yoshitsune (義経)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1924
Print Date: 10/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
Fukusuke V also performed the role at the Kabuki-za in
February 1928. I cannot rule out the possibility that this
print reflects that performance.
NOVEMBER 1924
Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)
Play: Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺 )
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Fukuzuke V first played the role of Hanako in this
play at the Kabuki-za in December 1920. He also played
Hanako in Tokyo in productions of Kyôganoko Musume
Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺) at the Kabuki-za in April 1916
and at the Tokyo Minami-za in December 1923. I cannot
entirely rule out the possibility that this print reflects
Fukusuke V's December 1923 performance.
FEBRUARY 1925
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助)
as Shiratama (白玉)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(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) #2
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Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
Play: Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04//1926
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
Note: During the time that Shikô
was active, Fukusuke V also
performed this role in Kichisama
Mairu Yukari no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信) at the Shintomi-
za in January 1923, and in Oshichi
Kichisa (お七吉三) at the Hongô-
za in May 1924. This print could
depict one of those performances.
However, this design was
reproduced as a frontispiece in a
May 1926 issue of Engei to Eiga,
making it like that it depicts the
February 1926 performance.
[Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare
Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke
V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎);
[Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?]
as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji
II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no
Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji
II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi
Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
Print
Date: c. 1920s
Artist:
Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Note:
This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô
in the 1920s.
FEBRUARY 1927
Nakamura Fukusuke V
(中村 福助) as
Princess Yaegaki (八重垣姫)
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
1-shû (舞台絵巻 第1集)
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Nakamura Fukusuke V as (中村福助) as
Omitsu (おみつ; お光)
Play: Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama) (三宅花山)
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY 1928
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/28
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine
(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) #6
Personal Collection
UNKNOWN DATES
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as ? and ?
Play(s): ?
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: This postcard came with a set
that dates to November 1917 and
likely relates to a production performed
in the 1917-1918 time period.
[Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎);
[Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as
Oschichi (お七);
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?]
as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII
(尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里);
Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次))
as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎);
[Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?]
as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Note: This set of uncut
prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles
prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s.
See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Oschichi.
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as
Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Play: Play: Kyô Ningyô (京人形)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Nakamura Fukusuke IV
or V (中村福助) as
Kedani Mondo (毛谷主水)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock
printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some
Oschichi-Kichasamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: Fukusuke V performed
this
role in Kichisama Mairu
Yukari
no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信) at
the Shintomi-za in
January
923, and Fukusuke VI
performed
this role in the same
play at the
Meiji-za in June
1936. Fukusuke
V also performed this
role in
Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三)
at the
Hongô-za in May 1924,
in
Shochikubai Yushima no
Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)) at
the
Hongô-za in February
1926, and in
Shochikubai Yuki no
Akebono
(松竹梅雪曙) at the
Shintomi-za in
December 1918.
This print
could depict any one of
those
performances.
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助)
as Kijo (鬼女)
Play: Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Note: Fukusuke V performed this role
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in December
1925.
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as ?
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Nakamura
Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as
Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some
Oschichi-Kichasamono
Artist: ?
Medium:
Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Note:
Fukusuke V performed this
role in
Kichisama Mairu Yukari
no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信) at
the Shintomi-za
in January
1923, and Fukusuke VI
performed
this role in the same
play at the
Meiji-za in June
1936. Fukusuke
V also performed
this role in
Oshichi Kichisa
(お七吉三) at the
Hongô-za in May
1924, in
Shochikubai
Yushima no
Kagegaku
(松竹梅湯島掛額)) at the
Hongô-za in
February 1926, and in
Shochikubai Yuki
no Akebono
(松竹梅雪曙) at the
Shintomi-za in
December
1918. This print
could depict any
one of those
performances.
Nakamura
Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as Masaoka (政岡)
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Note
Fukusuke * performed
this role
at the Meiji-za in
October
1931.
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V
(中村福助) as ?
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album
Set #2]
Personal Collection
Nakamura Fukusuke IV, V, VI, or VII (中村福助) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)
Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kisan (璣山)
Personal Collection
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎 ) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
Nakamura Fukusuke IV or V (中村福助) as
Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection