KAWASE HASUI (川 瀬巴水)

 1926

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Yoemon (與右衛門)

Play: Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/31/26
Print Date: 07/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 6, No. 7 (July 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as Osome (おそめ)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Osato (お里)

Play: Sushiya (鮓屋), Act 3, Scene III of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 02/02/26
Print Date: 06/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 6 (June 1, 1926)
Personal Collection

               
Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郎; 沢田正二郎) as Ii Tairô (井伊大老)

Play: Ii Tairô no Shi (井伊大老の死)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/26
Print Date: 02/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 26) (三十六家選 (その廿六))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 6, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

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Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Kyôko京子

Play: Daini no Seppun (第二の接吻)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 03/01/26
Print Date: 03/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 27) (三十六家選 (その廿七))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 6, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as Genzô's wife Tonami (戸浪)

Play: Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV, Scene III of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習 鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1926
Print Date: 07/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 7 (July 1, 1926)
Personal Collection

               
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川壽美蔵) as Matahei (又平)

Play: Keisei Hangonkô (傾城反魂香)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 08/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 

                   
Kabuki-za (歌舞伎座)

Print Date: 05/1926
*Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago

Note: This print was issued by the publisher to be a
companion print to a May 1925 print by Ito Shinsui
entitled "Makuai [Interval] (幕間)."
 
 
 

               
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Akoya (阿古屋)

Play: Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: Nani-wa, Osaka
Performance Date: 06/1926
Print Date: 10/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection 
 
 
 

               
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Iruka Daijin (入鹿大臣)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Hôngaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/06/26
Print Date: 09/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 6, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection

               
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Motome (求女)

Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place:  Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/06/26
Print Date: 04/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 28) (三十六家選 (その廿八))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 6, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/26
Print Date: 04/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 6, No. 4 (Apr.. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umekawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/26
Print Date: 08/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 32) (三十六家選 (その三十二))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 6, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection.
 
Note: My copy of this issue is missing the frontispiece.   It is believed to
have been omitted by the publisher by accident, and was included in the
next issue as No. 32 in the series.
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (森田勘弥; 守田勘弥) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu (暗闇の丑松)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/26
Print Date: 02/01/28
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashin (演藝寫真), Vol. 2, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1928)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umekawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai  (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/26
Print Date: 09/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 32) (三十六家選 (その三十二))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 6, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (澤村宗十郎) as Satô Tadanobu (佐藤忠信 )

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 12/01/26
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 5, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Sôjûrô VII performed this role at the Teikoku Gekijo in November 1913.  He also performed this
role in Yoshino Shizuka at the Teikoku Gekijo in January 1919. This print probably reflects some later
regional performance. 

               
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Moriyama Tatsuji (守山辰次)

Play: Keikochû no Togitatsu (稽古中の研辰)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/26
Print Date: 02/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 6, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ennosuke II also portrayed Moriyama Tatsuji in Togitatsu no Utare (研辰の討たれ) at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in December 1925.