Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Hanako (花子)

Play: Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/06
Print Date: 02/1906?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

Note: The caption of the print is Gaisen (凱旋) -
Triumphant Return.  Jûzô IV had just returned
from fighting in the Russo-Japanese War.  Two
other plays on the same bill at the Kabuki-za
were "Okuno Kiroku" (陸奥記録) and "Gunjin
Katagi,", two victory-commemorating war
dramas directed by Jûzô IV's adopted father
Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵).
 
 

                                     
                    Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Izumi no Saburô Tadahira (泉三郎忠衡)
 
                    Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Okugata Kureha (奥方呉羽)
   
                    Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
                    Plays: Oku no Kiroku (陸奥記録); Gunjin Katagi (軍人気質); Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 03/08/06
                    Print Date: 03/09/06
                    Artist: ?
                    Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
                    Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 

Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as
Jirôzô (次郎蔵)
 
Play: Seishû Akogi-ga-Ura (勢州阿漕浦) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/08/20
Print Date: 06/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            
            Kataoka Ichizô IV
            (片岡市蔵) as
            Jirôzô (次郎蔵)
 
            Play: Seishû Akogi-ga-Ura
            (勢州阿漕浦) 
            Performance Place: Shintomi-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 06/08/20
            Print Date: 06/1920?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as
Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使), Act IV of
Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討; 御所櫻堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#19)
*Personal Collection

Note:  Ichizô IV first played this role in Tokyo at the Engi-za
 in December 1910.  He would again play this role at the
Teikoku Gekijô in July 1921 and at the Meiji-za in February
1924.  It is possible that Shunsen based this print on his 1921
or 1924 performances.
 
 
 

 
Kataoka Ichizô IV  (片岡市蔵) as
Masakiyo (正清)
            
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts