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


 
JANUARY 1907


Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Tomoe Gozen (巴御前)
 
? as Kaba no Kaja Noriyori (蒲冠者範頼)


Play:  Onna Shibaraku (女暫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/07
Print Date: 01/1907?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Three woodblock printed postcards
Image courtesy of Kobikido Shoten
 


Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村 羽左衛門)
as Todorokibô Shinsai (轟坊震斎)
 
? as ?


 
 



FEBRUARY 1907


Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Hatomiya Yônosuke (鳩宮庸之助)
 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Osawa (おさわ)


Play:  Ichijiku (無花果)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/07
Print Date: 02/1907?
Medium: Three woodblock printed postcards
 
Note: The above image has been cobbled together
from different sources, including Kobikido Shoten.  
Although partially obscured, the right most postcard
depicts a lion.
 
 


                          
?

 
 



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
 
 
 

 









MAY 1907

                 
 
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono 
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka Geshôkagami  (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
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.
 









JULY 1907

                 
 
Plays: Gishi no Yoshi Homare (義士の芳誉); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Kokkei Ataka no Seki (滑稽安宅関)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/15/07
Print Date: 07/15/07
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum





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