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)
FEBRUARY 1913
Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)
Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Osugi (お杉)
Plays: Kankô (菅公); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑);
Wankyu Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山); Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/13
Print Date: 02/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸), Nakamura
Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Sakuramaru (桜丸), and Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Umeômaru
(梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); and Hayashi
Chôzaburô I (林 長三郎)
as Fujiwara (藤原), Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Okina (翁),
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
as Michizane (道真), and Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as Akomaru (阿古丸)
in Kankô (菅公).
NOVEMBER 1913
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸)
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長)
Ichikawa Monnosuke VI (市川門之助) as Odai (おだい)
Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Matsumushi (松虫)
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hayashi Shinroku (林新六)
Plays: Chukô Shigure no Matsu (忠孝時雨松); Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記);
Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟);
Osaragi Kuyô (大佛供養); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Horikoshi Fukusaburô (堀越福三郎) as
Kaegagoro (替我五郎) and
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Haha Manjô (母滿江) in Soga Kyôdai
(曾我兄弟); and
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧), Nakamura
Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門), and ? as ? in Kuruwa Bunshô
(廓文章).
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: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
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.