ICHIKAWA KIGAN V (市川鬼丸)
  1889 - 06/20/1978

aka ONOE TAGANOJÔ III (尾上多賀之丞; 尾上多賀之亟)


MARCH 1927

                   
Ichikawa Kigan V (市川鬼丸) as
Otomi (お富; おとみ)

Play:  Genjidana (源氏店), Act 3 of  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛; 與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/27
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#22)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kigan V first portrayed Otomi in Tokyo at the Miyato-
za in July 1908.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Kigan V's June 1916 performance at the Miyato-za
or June 1921 performance at the Kanda Gekijô.