Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛)
Play: Hanakawado Uwasa no Manaita
(花川戸噂の俎板)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/16
Print Date: 11/1916?
Artist: Matsuda Seifû (松田青風)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed
Banzuiin Chôbé in an October 1919
production of Kiwametsuki Banzui
Chôbé (極附幡随長兵衛;
極付幡随長兵衛) at the Ichimura-za,
so it is possible that this print relates to
that performance. Stylistically,
however, it more closely resembles
Seifû's Yakusha-e prints of 1915 than
his later Nigao-e prints.