SASAJIMA KIHEI (笹 島喜平) 

  1950

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Nuregami Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎)
           
Play: Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/1950
Print Date: 01/1950?
Medium: Colored woodblock print, likely with
hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Ebizô IX previously performed this role at the Tokyo
Gekijô in January 1947.  I cannot rule out the possibility that
this print reflects that earlier performance.

                Matsumoto Koshirô VIII (松本幸四郎) as Matsunaga (松永)

                Play: Kinkakuji (金閣寺), Act IV of Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
                Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 01/02/50
                Print Date: 1950?
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
                Personal Collection
 
                Note: Koshirô VIII also performed this role at the Kabuki-za in May 1951, a time when Kihei was still
                making these small format actor prints.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
                performance.

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若 ) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
           
Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (樓門五山桐; 楼門五山桐)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/1950
Print Date: 05/1950?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum