Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助)
as Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)  
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1914
Print Date: 11/1914
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Image courtesy of Fujiarts.com
 
 
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
 
Ichimura Kamezô III (市村亀蔵; 市村龜蔵) as Kaoyo (顔世)
 
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Takano Moronao (高野師直)
 
Ichikawa Sumizo VI (市川寿美蔵) as Momoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)
 
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Okaru (おかる)
 
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Kataoka Ichizō IV (片岡 市蔵) as En'ya Hangan (塩谷判官)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Momonoi Wakasanosuke (桃井若狭之助)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/1953
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I can find no record of Nizaemon XIII performing
this role in the relevant time period.   He did not appear in
November 1953 production at the Teikoku Gekijô with
Minosuke VI, the subject of a contemporaneous print by
Shunsen.
 
 
 

                   
Momonoi [Wakasanosuke] Yakata (桃井館)

Play: Matsukiri (松切), Act II, Scene 2 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection