MIYAKE HANAYAMA (三宅花山)

1928

                 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as  
Mashiba Hisayoshi (羽柴久吉)

Play:  Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐; 樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1928
Print Date: 06/1928?
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  There is a record here of Sôjûrô VII performing in
this play with Kôshirô VII in January 1923 but not the venue:
https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
The pair also played the same roles in a production of 
Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928.  Given that 1928 appears
to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects a prior performance outside of Tokyo.

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as 
Goemon (五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五三桐)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1928
Print Date: 06/1928?
Personal Collection

Note:  There is a record here of Kôshirô VII performing in
this play with Sôjûrô VII in January 1923 but not the venue:
https://zeami.ci.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/~izuka/erito1/tujikabuki1.html
The pair also played the same roles in a production of
Kama-ga-Fuchi Futatsu Domoe (釜渕双級巴) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in October 1928.  Given that 1928 appears
to be rather late for Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects a prior performance outside of Tokyo.

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play:  Chûshingura Nenjû Gyôji (忠臣藏年中行事)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date: 10/1928?
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note:  Nizaemon XI also performed this role in
Kanadehon Chûshingura at the Kabuki-za in April 1921.
Given that 1921 and 1928 appear to be rather early and late,
respectively, for a Hanayama print, it is possible that the
print reflects an intermediate  performance outside of Tokyo.

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