Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Hatomiya Yônosuke (鳩宮庸之助)
 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Osawa (おさわ)

Play:  Ichijiku (無花果)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/07
Print Date: 02/1907?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Three woodblock printed postcards
 
The above image has been cobbled together
from different sources, including Kobikido Shoten. 
Although partially obscured, the right most postcard
depicts a lion.

 
 

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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)

                 
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as [Salome] Sarome (サロメ)
 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as [Queen Herodias] Ôhi Herododasu (王妃ヘロドダス)
 
Play: [Salome] Sarome (サロメ)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/08/15
Print Date: 05/1915?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph banzuke
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
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Note: Version that includes billing for Kawai Takeo.

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
 

Cover of play outline (sujigaki)

Play: Kanaya Koume (仮名屋小梅)
Performance Place: Minami--za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 04/08/20
Print Date: 04/1920
Artist: ?
Medium: Offset printed sujigaki
Personal Collection 
 
Note: Most of the cast previously appeared in a
production at the Shintomi-za in Tokyo, which opened
on November 11, 1919.   In addition to Kawai Takeo,
who played Kanaya Koume, the cast in Kyoto included
Kinoshita (木下), Murata Shikibu (村田式部), Takemura
Shin (武村新), Umejima Noboru (梅島昇), Nagoshi
Senzaemon (名越仙左衛門), Takashima Umetarô
(高島梅太郎), Matsumoto Yôjirô (松本要次郎),  and
Shimoda Mô  (下田猛).

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
 
 
 

                 
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).

               
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.