Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanpei Harakiri (勘平腹切), Act 6 of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#11)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Some authorities date this print to 1925, but I have found
no record of Eizaburô VII performing this role prior to February
1926.
 
 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Okura (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo       
Performance Date: 04/1926
Print Date:  1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
 (當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
 Personal Collection

       
        Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
        Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平) 
       
        Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo      
        Performance Date: 04/1926
        Print Date:  1928?
        Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
       (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
        Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1952
Print Date: 1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin Yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/04/1955
Print Date: 11/1955
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Ebizô IX would subsequently perform the
role at the Kabuki-za in December 1955, a
month after this print was made.  It is possible that
the print was conceived in anticipation of that
performance.  Shunsen previously made a print of
Ebizô IX in this role in 1954, based on a
performance at the Meiji-za in December 1952.
  
 
 

                   
Okaru (おかる)

Play: Kanpei Harakiri ( 勘平腹切), Act VI of
Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as
Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kichiemon II portrayed Kanpei in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in September 1974 and March 1980.