Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as
Shihei-kô (時平公)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Sugiômaru (杉王丸)

Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Ichikawa Komazô VII.8 (市川高麗蔵)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1
of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/02
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku
Ôtani Library
 
Note:  I have not found a contempor-
aneous stage performance with this
particular cast.  Many of actors,
however, did appear in a production
at the Kabuki-za in November 1903.
 
 
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Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Shin Kyôgen (新狂言)
Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as ?
 
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
             (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

           
            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ?
 
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda

   
    Nakamura Kichiemon I ( 中村吉右衛門) as
    Inumura Kakutarô Masanori (犬村角太郎礼儀)
     
    Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
    (南総里見八犬傳)
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
    Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I ( 中村吉右衛門) 
as ?
     
Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)  as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914-1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門)
as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Play: Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I performed this role
five times in Tokyo between February
1915 and April 1951.

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Chikasada (歌川周貞)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
Note: During the 1910s and 1920s, Kichiemon I
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za on
November 1913 and February 2017, at the Teikoku
Gekijô in March 1918, at the Hôgaku-za in September
1924, and at the Hongô-za in February 1926,
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ?



Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection   

Note: The publisher information and artist cartouche
suggest that this print was likely made around the same
time as two known 1914 prints by Shunsen.  The
butterflies on Kichiemon I's Kichiemon I's kimono also
suggest that the character might be Soga Gorô Tokimune
(曾我五郎時致), but I can find no record of Kichiemon I
playing this character in any play prior to 1929.  One
possibility, however, is that the print depicts Kichiemon I
as Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨) in the play Kyôkaku
Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘), commonly known as
Harusame Gasa (春雨傘) or Jitsuroku no Sukeroku
(実録の助六).  Kichiemon I performed in a production
of  Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa at the Ichimura-za in
January 1913.
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sakuramaru (桜丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
( 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI, Mitsugorô VII, and Kichiemon I
appear to have performed their respective roles in the
same Tokyo production on only one occasion, namely, at
the Ichimura-za in November 1915.  Whether all three
performed together at some later date outside of Tokyo is
not known to me at this time.  The only other time
Kikugorô VI played the role of Sakuramaru in Tokyo was
at the Kabuki-za in January 1934.

              
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Abe no Yasuna (安倍保名)
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ***

Play: Yasuna (保名)/?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)

Note: Information on the source of this image is lost, but
it is believed to be a woodblock print.  Kikugorô VI first
performed his own version of this role in Tokyo at the
Ichimura-za in February 1922.  He reprised the role in
Tokyo on at least 13 subsequent occasions, and gave
his final performance in the role at the Kabuki-za in
Osaka in March 1949, four months before his death on
July 10, 1949 at age 65.  His last appearance in Tokyo
in this role was at the Shinbashi Enbujô in January
1949, although it is possible that this print depicts
Kikugorô VI in an earlier production.
 
 
 
 

 
 Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
 as Teraoka Heiemon ( 寺岡平右衛門)

 Play: Hato no Heiemon (鳩の平右衛門)
 Performance Place: ?
 Performance Date: ?
 Print Date: ?
 Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
 (長谷川貞信)
 Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
 Personal Collection

 Note: Kichiemon I performed this role
  in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in May 1918,
  at the Hôgaku-za in March 1925, at the
  Meiji-za in November 1930, and at the
  Kabuki-za in February 1944.      

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as    
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋),
Act III, Scene 3 of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/05/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄;
藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿 第二編) #7
Personal Collection
   
Note: Kichiemon I also performed this
role at the Ichimura-za in February 1916.

                         
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
        Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)

        Play: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: 1941
         Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III  (長谷川貞信)
        Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
        also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
        (歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
        *Personal Collection

        Note: Kichiemon I performed the role in Tokyo at the
        Kabuki-za in February 1939.  That production likely
        toured Osaka around that time.

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sôgo (宗吾)

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Jinbei (甚兵)  

Play: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III  (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Kichiemon I and Tomoemon VI performed their
roles together at the  Meiji-za in Toyko in February 1937.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III  (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

 
  Nakamura Kichiemon I
  (中村吉右衛門) as
  Kumagai Naozane
  (熊谷直実)

  Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
  Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
  Artist: ?
  Medium: Woodblock printed
  matchbook cover
 
  Note: Kichiemon I first per-
   formed this role in Tokyo as the
  Asakusa-za in February 1902. 
  His final performance in Tokyo
  was at the Tokyo Gekijô in June
  1948.

            
            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Chôbei (長兵衛)

            Play: Banzui Chôbei
            (幡随長兵衛)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
  
            Note: Kichiemon I first
            performed this role at the
            Ichimura-za in May 1909.
            His final performance in
            Tokyo was at the Kabuki-
            za in September 1953.
                    
         

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
      
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I portrayed Ishikawa
Goemon in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za
in January 1916 and at the Shintomi-
za in March 1923.
 
 

       
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
        as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
 
        Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: Kichiemon I performed this role
        opposite performed this role Kikugorô
        VI  in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in April
        1914, at the Hongô-za in April 1926,
        and at the Kabuki-za in March 1934.

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)
 
Play:  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
(近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/24
Print Date: 1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
(近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: This print may not be by
Sadanobu III, and is probably
by the unknown artist of the
prior battledore print.. Kichiemon
I played this role in Tokyo at the
Hôgaku-za in September 1924
and at the Hongô-za in February
1926. However, it likely reflects
 a performance in Osaka or
 Kyoto. 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Gotôbê (五斗兵衛)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
(義経腰越状)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/20
Print Date: 1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Chôbei (長兵衛)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  07/29/39
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Personal Collection
  
Note: Kichiemon I first performed this role at the Ichimura-za in May 1909.  This appears to have been a
private commission for some group.  As Hanayama was not known to be actively designing print in the
late 1930s, this print likely recycles a Hanayama design from the 1920s. I have not been able to find a
contemporaneous performance of Banzuin Chôbei in Tokyo, though it could reflect a performance outside
of Tokyo during the summer of 1939.
                    
         

                            
                Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
                Chôbei (長兵衛)

                Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ? 
                Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)