KAWAI TAKEO (河合武雄; 河合武夫)
03/13/1877 - 03/21/1942



JANUARY 1912

                   
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Chôzan (丁山)

Play:  Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Print Date: [~1929-1934]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is possible
that this print was never editioned.  Kawai Takeo first performed
the role of Chôzan (with Ii Yôhô) in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in
January 1907.  He reprised the role at the Meiji-za in November
1915, at the  Kabuki-za in March 1918, and at the Minamiza
(Abuza Tokyo) in March 1924.  It is possible that Shunsen based
this print on one of these later performances
 
 
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Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.

           
           



 
 Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Chôzan (丁山)
           
  Play: Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
  Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 01/02/12
  Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)



SEPTEMBER 1915

 

Kawai Takeo (可合武雄) as Okisa (おきさ)
 
Play: Imamiya Shinjû (今宮心中)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/15
Print Date: 09/15?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection




APRIL1922


Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Osen (お仙}

Play: Fuyuki Shinjû (冬木心中)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/22
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection
 
 
 


MARCH 1931

                 
Umejima Noboru (梅島 昇) as
Fujino Shūsaku (藤野秀作)

Play: Uyûge (有憂華)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/31
Print Date: 03/16/31
Artist: Inagaki Tomoo (稲垣知雄)
Series: [Teigeki March Show Prints]
Teigeki Sangatsu Kōgyō Hanga
(帝劇三月興行版画)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The man is likely Kawai Takeo (可合武雄)
as Kashiku no Omasaru (かしくのお勝) or
Kikunami Shônosuke (菊波正之助) as Yasutomi
Shinzō (安富慎蔵).



JANUARY 1940



               
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Koume (小梅)

Play: Koume to Kazue (小梅と一重), a version of 
Kanaya Koume (仮名屋小梅)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/40
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)  (#23)
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.  Takeo died on March 21, 1942 at age
68.  He first played the role of Koume in Kanaya Koume
in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in November 1919.  Although
Takeo's final Tokyo appearance was at the Meiji-za in
January 1940, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Takeo's prior performances.