JULY 1900
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵) as
'Musume Konami (娘小浪)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/28/1900
Print Date: 06/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Kakogawa Honzô (加古川本蔵)
Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as
Oishi (お石)
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Rikiya (力弥)
OCTOBER 1900
Front Row L-R:
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次
Ichikawa Enshô II (市川莚升;
市川莚舛)
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I (市川権十郎;
市川權十郎)
Middle Row L-R:
Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥;
澤村訥舛; 澤村訥升)
Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎)
Ichikawa Kudanji II (市川九団次;
市川九團次)
Ichikawa Fukuzô II (市川福蔵)
Back Row L-R:
Bandô Mitsutarô I (坂東三津太郎)
Ichikawa Yonezô I (市川米三)
Ichikawa Tsutanosuke I(市川蔦之助)
Nakamura Kansuke II (中村翫助)
Event: Akashi [V] Hikitate no Zu
(明石引立ノ図)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1900
Print Date: 10/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library
Front Row:
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次)
Middle Row L-R:
Ichikawa Sadenji I (市川左伝次)
Ichikawa Arajirô I (市川荒次郎)
Ichikawa Botan II (市川ぼたん)
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵)
Back Row L-R:
Sawamura Ujûrô III (沢村宇十郎;
澤村宇十郎
Nakamura Kantarô II (中村翫太郎)
Ichikawa Saisuke I (市川左伊介;
市川左伊助)
Ichikawa Kohanji II (市川小半次)
Front Row L-R:
Nakamura Akashi V (中村明石)
Nakamura Kangorô XII (中村勘五郎)
Second Front Row L-
Ichikawa Danjirô (市川団次郎;
市川團次郎)
Ichikawa Sumizô V (市川寿美蔵;
市川壽美蔵)
Ichikawa Gonza I (市川権三)
Ichikawa Shachimaru I (市川志やち丸;
市川鯱丸; 市川しやち丸)
Middle Row L-R:
Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助 澤村源之助)
Ichikawa Shôjaku II (市川舛若;
市川升若)
Ichikawa Enjo I (市川莚女)
Back Row L-R:
Seki Utasuke II (関歌助)
Ichikawa Enzaburô I (市川莚三郎)
Ichikawa Kôtarô I (市川好太郎)
Ichikawa Saiji I (市川左伊次)
Ichikawa Sakizô I (市川左喜蔵)
APRIL 1901
Ichikawa Yonezô IV.5 (市川米蔵)
as Terute-hime (照手姫)
Ichikawa Kudanji II
(市川九団次; 市川九團次) as
Akusô Unten (悪僧運天)
Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kazama Hachirô (風間八郎)
Play: Sekai no Hana Oguri
Gaiden (世界花小栗外伝)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/19/01
Print Date: 05/02/01
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library
Ichikawa Arajirô I (市川荒次郎)
as Zeze no Shirôzô
(膳所の四郎蔵)
Ichikawa Sadanji I
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ryôshi Namishichi (漁師浪七)
Ichikawa Sumizô V
(市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Onigawara no Dôhachi
(鬼瓦の銅八)
Ichikawa Enshô II
(市川莚升; 市川莚舛) as
Kusuda Shumizu (楠田主水)
Nakamura Naritarô I
(中村成太郎) as
Tarô tsuma Asaka (太郎妻浅香)
Ichikawa Gonjûrô I
(市川権十郎; 市川權十郎) as
Hosokawa Masamoto
(細川政元)
Ichikawa Kodanji V
(市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Yokoyama Tarô (横山太郎)
MARCH 1918
Nakamura Kaisha I
(中村魁車) as
Ôuchi Yoshihiro (大内義弘)
Play: Hachijin Shugo no Honjô
(八陣守護城)
Performance Place: Shintomi-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/18
Print Date: 03/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
MARCH 1919
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)
Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection
Note: This design was posthumously reissued
in 1922 in a slightly different color scheme
depicting the actor Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) in the role.
Nakamura
Kaisha (中村魁車) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)
Play:
Sugawara Denjù Tenarai
Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑;
菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-
za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print
Date: 03/1919?
Artist:
Utagawa Kunisada III
(歌川国貞)
Medium:
woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal
Collection
MARCH 1926
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Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)
Play: Shinjû Yoi Gôshin (心中宵庚申)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/26
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#35)
*Personal Collection
APRIL 1926
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Tonami (戸浪)
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)
Ichikawa Ebijûrô VII (市川鰕十郎) as
Shundô Genba (春藤玄蕃)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Konô Michisei (河野通勢)
Series: Kabuki E-ban Gashū (歌舞伎絵版画集)
Personal Collection
Note: All but Ebijûrô I performed their particular roles at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in April 1926. It is unclear if Ebijûrô I
is listed in error, if he was a replacement for the actor
during the run, or if the print actually reflects a performance
on tour and not the one at the Kabuki-za.
UNKNOWN DATES
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as Chiyo (千代)
Play: Ga no Iwai (賀の祝), Act III, Scene 2 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (鑭陸奥實記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#25)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design. Kaisha died on March 13, 1945 at age
71. I can find no record of Kaisha playing Chiyo in any
production of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami in Tokyo.
Kaisha did, however, play a character named Chiyo in a
March 1940 production of Awa no Konayuki (阿波の粉雪)
at the Tokyo Gekijô,
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Umekawa (梅川)
Play: Koi Bikyaku
Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Kaisha I
performed this role at
the Naka-za, Osaka, in
January 1925.
However, there is no
guarantee that
this print reflects that
particular
performance.
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Umegawa (梅川)
Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato
Ôrai
((恋飛脚大和往来))
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa
Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: Kaisha I
performed this role at
the Naka-za, Osaka, in
January 1925.
However, there is no
guarantee that
this print reflects
that particular
performance.
Four pochibukuro, possibly
reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above:
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
Nakamura Senjaku I
(中村扇雀); ?.
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa
Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎); Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門);
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次; Nakamura
Kaisha I (中村魁車).
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Four pochibukuro, possibly
reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above:
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
Ichikawa Sadanji III
(市川左団次; 市川左團次); Jitsukawa
Enjaku II (実川延若;
實川延若); Nakamura Fukusuke IV
(中村福助)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa
Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Five pochibukuro, possibly
reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above:
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎;
坂東壽三郎); ?; Nakamura
Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Jitsukawa
Enjaku II (実川延若;
實川延若)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa
Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as '
Yodogimi (淀君)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: The seller attributed this print to
Natori Shunsen, but seal does not look
like any known Shunsen seal.
Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車)
as Ohaya (おはや)
Play: Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa
Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: Kaisha performed this
role in Tokyo at the
Shintomi-
za in March 1918 and at the
Kabuki-za in March 1927.
Nakamura Kaisha
I (中村魁車)
as Otani (お谷)
Play:
Igagoe Dôchū Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Artist: ?
Medium:
Woodblock printed
matchbook
cover
Note: Kaishi I
performed this
' role at the Naniwa in
Osaka in
October 1917.