ARASHI KICHISABURÔ VII (嵐吉三郎)
12/01/1894 - 02/11/1973

aka KATAOKA TÔNOSUKE (片岡當之助; 片岡当之助)




FEBRUARY 1928
 

                   
Arashi Kichisaburō VII (嵐吉三郎) as ?

Play:  ?
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/28
Print Date: 02/1928
Series: Ganjirô Jûnikyoku no Uchi
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection

Note: The following actors are mentioned in the poems on the surimono:  Shirai Matsujirō (白井松次郎); Ōtani Takejirō (大谷竹次郎); Nakamura
Ganjirō I  (中村鴈治郎); Kataoka Nizaemon XI (岡仁左衛門); Kataoka Gadō IV (片岡我童); and Arashi Kichisaburō VII (嵐吉三郎).  However, seeing
as Kataoka Tônosuke (片岡當之助; 片岡当之助) took the name Arashi Kichisaburō VII at the Naka-za in Osaka in February 1928, he is the most
likely candidate.  Moreover, one of the poems expressly references Tônosuke inheriting the Arashi family name.
 
 
 


UNKNOWN DATES

                                    
Arashi Kichisaburô VI or VII
(嵐吉三郎) as 長野新?

Play: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: If the print depicts Kichisaburo
VI, then the print would have been
made prior to November 1927.  If the
print depicts Kichisaburô VII, it
would have been made on or after
February 1928.
 
 
                      
       




Arashi Kichisaburô VI or VII (嵐吉三郎) as
Ōtori Ippei (大鳥逸平)
 
Play:  Koko ga Edo Koude no Tatehiki
(慈江戸小腕達引)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: If the print depicts Kichisaburo VI,
then the print would have been made prior
to November 1927.  If the print depicts
Kichisaburô VII, it would have been made
on or after February 1928.