OHASHI GEKKÔ (大橋月皎) 

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? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #9
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

Note: This is likely Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as Yodogimi (淀君) in Hototogisu
Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) or a similar
 play.  Between 1916 and 1925, Utaemon V played
this role in five Tokyo productions.
 
 
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

[Onnagata in a Black Kimono]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天[小僧菊之助])

Play: Shiranami Gonin Otoko (白波五人男]
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

Okoshô Yayoi (御小姓彌生)

Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.

[Onnagata Reading a Letter]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

Otoku (お徳)

Play: Keisei Hangonkô (傾城反魂香)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

Kineya Yaichi (杵屋弥市)
 
Geisha Yonekichi  芸者米吉)

Play: Shamisen Yakuza 三味線やくざ
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: This piece was described by the auctioneer as being sumi
and watercolor on a thick decorative shikishiban cardboard.  It is
likely that the shikishiban works on this page are all paintings
misdescribed as woodblock prints, or else this painting is actually
a woodblock print.
 
 

[Onnagata in a Black Kimono]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

 Kumadori (隈取) for Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
 Kumadori (隈取) for Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
 Kumadori (隈取) for Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.
 
 
 

 Ichimura Uzaemon (市村羽左衛門) as Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)
 
Onoe Kikugorô (尾上菊五郎) as Giheiji (義平次)
 
Onoe Kikugorô (尾上菊五郎) as Issun Tokubê (一寸徳兵衛)
 
Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Although listed as a woodblock print, it is possible that this is
actually a painting.There was a production of this play with Uzaemon
XV and Kikugorô VI at the Kabuki-za in July 1940 which could be the
production depicted in this work.   It is not known at this time how
the auctioneer was able to identify the actors, but that information
may have been on the decorative wrapper that accompanied the
work.