UTAGAWA KUNIMATSU
(歌川国松; 歌川圀松)
Unknown Dates
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
covering Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2 of
Kumo ni Magô Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
November
1905, April 1910, and November 1916; at the Shintomi-za in
December 1919,
at the Kabuki-za in May 1925, at the Teikoku Gekijô in November
1926, at the
Kabuki-za in September 1932, November 1933, and April 1936; at the
Tôyoko
Gekijô in May 1938, at the Kabuki-za in February 1939, at the
Tôyoko Gekijô in
December 1940, and at the Kabuki-za in April 1942, and May-June
1943.
However, since Kunimatsu also lived in Osaka, it is also possible
that this
print reflects a regional performance.
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)
Play: Tanemaki Sanbasô (種蒔三番叟)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: While I have found no record of Sôjûrô
VII performing in Tokyo in
Tanemaki Sanbasô (種蒔三番叟), he appeared as
Sanbasô in various
productions of Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操三番叟).