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).
 
 

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: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
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: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts