NAKAMURA KANZABURÔ XVIII (中村勘三郎)
05/30/1955 - 12/05/2012


aka NAKAMURA KANKURÔ V (中村勘九郎)



JUNE 1988

               
Nakamura Kankuro V (中村勘九郎) as
Tobizu Matsukichi (鳶頭鶴松)

Play: Omatsuri (お祭り)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/88
Print Date: 05/1994
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 


               
Nakamura Kankuro V (中村勘九郎) as
Tobizu Matsukichi (鳶頭鶴松)

Play: Omatsuri (お祭り)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/88
Print Date: c. 03/2005 - 05/2005
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This reduced size print was posthumously issued in
connection with other senshafude by an unknown artist to
commemorate Nakamura Kanzaburô XVIII (中村勘三郎)'s shûmei,
which took place at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in March-May 2005.  See
the "Unknown Artist  2005" section of this website.
 
 

APRIL 2000

                   
Nakamura Kankuro V (中村勘九郎) as
Iwashi U Sarugenji (鰯賣猿源氏)

Play: Iwashi Uri Koi no Hikiami (鰯賣戀曳網)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/2000
Print Date: 06/2000
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Culminant Series XIII (Design 13)]
Daijûsan-ki Shûsei Shirîzu no 13
(第十三期集成シリーズの13)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 

MARCH - MAY 2005

               
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVIII (中村勘三郎)

Print Date: c. 03/2005 - 05/2005
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: This set of senshafuda appears to have been issued to
commemorate Kanzaburô XVIII's shûmei, which took place at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in March-May 2005.  This set included a reduced
size version of Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)'s 1994 print of 
Nakamura Kankuro V's performance in Omatsuri (お祭り) at the
Kabuki-za in June 1988.  See the "Yamamoto Hisashi 1988" section
of this website.
 






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UNKNOWN DATE

               
Nakamura Kankurô V (中村勘九郎) as
Yayoi (弥生)

Play: Shunkyô Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子)
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: Kankurô V performed this role in Tokyo 11 times
between April 1976 and January 2002.