UTAGAWA KUNISADA III (歌川国貞) 

  aka Baidô Hôsai (梅堂豊斎); Baidô Kunimasa IV (梅堂国政); Kôchôrô Hôsai (香朝楼豊斎)

1893

APRIL 1893

 
 
 
 
Play: [Lieutenant Colonel
Fukushima's Solo Calvary
Expedition]
Fukushima Chûsa Tanki
Ensei (福島中佐単騎遠征)
Performance Place: Azuma-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1893
Print Date: 05/1893
Personal Collection
 

Fujisawa Asajirô  (藤澤浅二郎) as
[Lieutenant Colonel Fukushima]
Fukushima Chûsa (福島中佐)

       
        Kimura Shûhei (木村周平) as Mori Koheita (森小平太)
 
        Matsuno-ka Fukumatsu (松野家福松) as [Son Kanematsu] Segare Kanematsu (倅兼松)
 
        Fujisawa Asajirô  (藤澤浅次郎) as [Wife Otami] Tsuma Otami (妻おたみ)
 
        Play: Genroku Ibun Hiragana Zôshi (元禄遺聞 ひらかなぞうし)
        Performance Place:  Azuma-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/1893
        Print Date: 05/1893
        Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan
 
 
 
 

MAY 1893       

Satô Toshizô (佐藤歳三) as
Shiki Hidari-heimon Masuyuki
(志貴左兵門倍行)
 
Fujii Ichirô (藤井一郎) as
[Widow Jissôin]
Koshitsu Jissōin (後室実相院)
 
Play: Kusunoki Masayuki (楠正行)
Performance Place: Azuma-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1893
Print Date: 05/1893?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: One reference lists this
production as having been performed
in June 1893, which suggests that it
opened in late May 1893.  It is
possible that the unknown figure is a
second rendition of Satô Toshizô
 
 
 
 

  ?  as ?
 
  Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as
  Kusunoki Sakingo Masayuki
  (楠左金吾正行)

OCTOBER 1893

Fukui Mohei (福井茂兵衛) as Shimizu Jirô (清水次郎)
 
Unknown as Child
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Fukano-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/29/93
Print Date: 10/1893
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan  
 
Note: The bill consisted of Sengokusen Hokage Shirahama
(千石 船帆影白浜), Kaikishi (会来士), and Azuma Nairi (東內裡). 
This print could reflect any one of those plays.
 
 
 
 

UNKNOWN MONTH 1893

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Jiraiya (児雷也)

Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: Fukano-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1893
Print Date: 1893?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This appears to be a shingeki
play, not the kabuki version.

  Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
 Geisha Hideyoshi (芸妓秀吉)