TSURUYA KÔKEI (弦屋光溪) 

 1992

                 
Hana (花)

Play: Dôjôji (遺成寺)
Print Date: 01/1992
Personal Collection (#11/72)

Note: 6 copies from the edition of 72 were destroyed by the artist.

                 
Yuki (雪)

Play: Sagi Musume (鷺娘)
Print Date: 01/1992
Personal Collection (#24/72)

Note: 6 copies from the edition of 72 were destroyed by the artist.
 
 
 

                           
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景清)

Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/92
Print Date: 07/1992
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 1)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第七期大首絵シリーズの1)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
 
Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/92
Print Date:  2020
Series: [Five Styles of Banzai-Ukiyoe]
Banzai Ukiyoe-ha Go Sugata (万歳浮世絵派五姿) #4
*Personal Collection (#18/30)

Note: The actor portraying Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) as
painted by Kunisada is Ichikawa Danjûrô V (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎). 
The other figure is Kôkei's own modern day depiction of Ichikawa
Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as Kagekiyo.  Danjûrô XII also
portrayed Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo in a production of Kagekiyo (景情)
at the Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo, in January 1994.




 

                   
Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as
Komori no Yasuzô (蝙蝠の安蔵)

Ichikawa Ennosuke III (市川猿之助) as
Kirare Otomi (切られお富)

Play: Kirare Otomi (切られお富)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/92
Print Date: 09/1992
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 2)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 2
(第七期大首絵シリーズの2)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XVII (市村羽左衛門) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使)
[Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/92
Print Date: 11/1992
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 3)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 3
(第七期大首絵シリーズの3)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川團十郎) as
Jiraiya (児雷也)

Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/92
Print Date: 12/1992
Personal Collection (#27/90)

                 
Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎)  as
Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎)

Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/92
Print Date: 12/1992
Personal Collection (#27/90)

Note:  A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (楼門五三桐)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/92
Print Date: 03/1993
Series: [Bust Portraits IX (Design 4)]
Daikyuu-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 4
(第七期大首絵シリーズの4)
*Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com