APRIL 1928
Bandô Shûka (坂東しうか; 坂東志うか) as Kinmenuki Ginji (金目貫銀次)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tobei (藤兵衛)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Shinmon Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎)
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Oroku (お六)
Plays: Shinmon Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Suô
Otoshi (素襖落);
Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura (博多小女郎浪枕); Hidari Kogatana (左小刀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/28
Print Date: 04/1928?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)
in Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura (博多小女郎浪枕); and Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue (梶原源太景季) in Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記).
Morita Kan’ya XIV (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Satô Shirô Tadanobu (佐藤四郎忠信)/
Genkurô Kitsune (源九郎狐)
Play: Yoshinoyama (吉野山), Act IV, Scene 1 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 11/1949
Print Date: 02/1952
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 Tsubiouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Kan’ya XIV's only performance as Tadanobu in
Tokyo prior to the publication date of this print was at the
Meiji-za in December 1937. It is possible that this print
reflects that performance or some other performance
outside of Tokyo.
DECEMBER 1953
[Hell Screen] Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
Play: Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
Performance Place: Kabukii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/53
Print Date:
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Note: The cast of this production included Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
(中村勘三郎) as Eshi Yoshihide (絵師良秀), Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII
(松本幸四郎) as Horikawa Daijin (堀河大臣), Nakamura Utaemon VI
(中村歌右衛門) as Yoshihide Musume Ro 艸 (良秀娘露艸) and as
Tsuyukusa (露草), Nakamura Shikaku II (中村 芝鶴) as ?
( ), Nakamura
Matagorō II (中村又五郎) as Deshi Hanada Waka, Morita Kan'ya XIV
(守田 勘弥) as Deshi Fudeo (弟子筆雄), and Sawamura Sōjūrō VIII
(沢村宗十郎) as Midai Aoi no Kata (御台葵の方).
Morita Kan'ya XIV (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Shinjuku Koma Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/60
Print Date: 06/1960?
Artist: ?
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UNKNOWN DATE
Morita Kan'ya XIV (森田勘弥;
森田勘彌) as ?
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
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