YAMAMURA KÔKA (山村耕花)
  aka Yamamura Toyonari (山村豊成)

 1915

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)


Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date:  06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection
 
 

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Mukôkizu Yosaburô ((向疵与三郎)
[Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)]

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1915
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za. Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 1916
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 

Mori Ritsuko (森律子) as
Kiyoko (清子)

Play: Joyû Fuzei (女優風情) 
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Takechi Jûjirô (武智十次郎)

Play: Ehon Taikôki
(絵本大功記) [Taijû (太十)]
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1915
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;  澤村宗十郎)
as Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助)
as Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
*Personal Collection

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Chôsuke (長助)

Play: Takao Zange (高尾ざんげ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
*Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎)

Play: Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha
(四千両小判梅葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Landord Chôbei (家主長兵衛)

Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)

Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔),
Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)

Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode Mukashi Hachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/1915?

Note: Although lacking any information about the
subject or the artist, the print's resemblance to
Koka's print of KikugorôVI as Shinza is
unmistakable.  However, this might also be by an
anonymous artist copying the Koka print.
 
 
 

Onoe Kikujirô III (尾上菊次郎) as
Okuma (おくま)

Play: Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
[Tsuyu Kosode MukashiHachijô
(梅雨小袖昔八丈)]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Takechi Jûbee Mitsuhide (武智十兵衛光秀)

Play: Taikôki Onna Bunshô (太功記婦女文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection