NAKAMURA KICHIEMON I (中村吉右衛門)
03/24/1886 - 09/05/1954


Note: For images of Kichiemon I as an actor, click here.
 

JULY 1909

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Mikawaya Giheiji (三河屋儀平次)
 
Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:07/1909
Artist: Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Given that the artist most recently appeared in a production
of this play in Tokyo a year earlier, it is reasonable to assume that
he was depicting himself and his co-star in this print.