HANAYAGI SHÔTARÔ (花柳章太郎)
05/24/1894 - 01/06/1965

                   
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Omiya (大宮)

Play: Konjiki Yasha (金色夜叉)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/31
Print Date:  [1932-1934]
Artist:  Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is
possible that this print was never editioned.
 
 

               
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as
Shiraito (白糸)

Play: Taki no Shiraito (滝の白糸)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/1951
Print Date: 1955?
Artist: Ota Gakô  (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#11)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Shôtarô first played the role of Shiraito in this play in
Tokyo at the Tokyo Gekijô in August 1933.  Although
Shôtarô's last Tokyo appearance in this role before the
publication date of the print was in August 1951, it is
possible that Gakô based this print on one of Shôtarô's
prior performances.

                 
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Kanoya Oume (叶家お梅)

Play: Meiji Ichidaion'na  (明治一代女)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Series: Shinpa Haiyû Gakuya Kagami  (新派俳優楽屋鏡)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Shôtarô performed this role at the Meiji-za, Tokyo, in
November 1935, August 1941, August 1951, and April 1956.

                 
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as ??

Play: ?
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda

 

                 
Mizutani Yaeko I (水谷八重子) as Ototku (お徳)

Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as
Onoe Kikunosuke II (尾上菊之助)

Play: Zangiku Monogatari (残菊物語)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda

Note:  Yaeko I and Shôtarô appeared in the Tokyo premiere
at the Meiji-za in October 1937 and in several subsequent
revivals, either together or with other actors.  Shôtarô starred
in the 1939 movie version.  The last time that they appeared
together that I've been able to confirm was at the Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo, in February 1952.  As the print would have
been made after Shôtarô's death in 1965 and probably after
Yaeko I's death in 1979, it is logical to assume that Hasashi
would have based the print on its premiere Tokyo performance
in 1937.