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)

1907



APRIL 1907


Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as
Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)
  





Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/07
Print Date: 04/1907
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC
 
 
 
 


Ichikawa Komazô VIII
(市川高麗蔵) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)


Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

    
     Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Aburaya Osome (油屋お染)
   
     Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Hisamatsu (久松)
    
     Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作)
    
     Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Musume Omitsu (娘おみつ)
    
     Play: Nozaki-mura (野崎村), Volume 1, Scene 2 of
     Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
     Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 04/1907
     Print Date: 04/1907
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre of Japan
 
 
 



Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫)
as Aburaya Haha [Otsune]
(油屋母[お常])

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Musume Osome (娘おそめ)

Sawamura Tosshô III
(沢村訥升; 澤村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
Hisamatsu (久松)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Hyakushô Kyûsaku (百姓久作)

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Musume Omitsu (娘おみつ)

Play: Nozaki-mura (野崎村),
Volume 1, Scene 2 of
Shinpan Utasaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1907
Print Date: 06/20/07
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 









Sawamura Tosshi III
(沢村訥子; 澤村訥子) as 
Wakaya Sanzaemon
(若屋三左衛門)

Ichikawa Enjo I (市川莚女) as
Nyôbô Omastu (女房お松)
 
Ichikawa Metora II  (市川女寅) as
Matsuyama Tayû (松山太夫)

Ichikawa Udanji I
(市川右団次; 市川右團次) as
Wan'ya Kyûbê (椀屋久兵衛)

Ichikawa Unosuke I (市川右之助) as
Menu Mitsubuto (面賣三太)

Play: Wankyû (椀久)
Performance Place: Meijii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/23/07
Print Date: 06/20/07
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

 









JUNE 1907


Unread as Gankyû (雁九)

Unread as Kanzeon  (観世音) 

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片山小左衛門) as
Sawaichi (沢市)
 
Unread as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里)

Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記; 壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/10/07
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although there was a production
of Tsubosaka Reigenki at the Meiji-za
in March 1907, Nizaemon XI was not
in that production.  I have not been
 able to find a production with
Nizaemon XI as Sawaichi prior to 1914.
 








  


NOVEMBER 1907


Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵)

Other actors not read

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/07
Print Date: 05/06/08
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum