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)

1909

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨)
 
Plays: Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘); Seishôkô (清正公); Hana no Ueno Homare no
Ishibumi (花上野誉碑); Nyôbô no Kokoroe (女房の心得)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
Print Date: 04/01/09
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Unread as Nyòbò Chiyo (女房千代)

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Toneri Matsuòmaru (舎人松王丸)

Unread as Shundò Genba (春藤玄蕃)

Unread as
Nyòbò Tonami (源蔵女房戸浪)

Unread as Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)
 
Play:Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV,
Scene 3 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: 1909?
Print Date: 1909/06/04
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note:  Although Yaozô VII played the role
of Matsuòmaru on a number of occasions,
I have not found a contemporanous
performance of this play with this cast
around the time that the print was made.

Unread as Hyakushô (百姓)

Unread as Terako (寺子)

Unread as Hyakushô (百姓)

Unread as Genan Sansuke (下男三助)

Unread as Yodarekuri [Yotarô]
(よだれくり [与太郎])

Unread as Terako (寺子)

               
Ichikawa Shinjûrô III (市川新十郎) as Hirayama Mushadokoro (平山武者所)
 
Bandô Gogorô (坂東五五郎) [sic: Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎)?] as Atsumori (敦盛)
   
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Kumagai (熊ヶ谷)
 
Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎) as Tamaori-hime (玉おり姫)
 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e. 
 
 
 
 

Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子) as Daikokuya Sôkichi (大黒屋惣吉)/Sôroku (惣六)
   
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助) as Shinobu (しのぶ)
 
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as Miyagino (ミやぎの)
 
Play: Shiraishi Banashi Ageya (白石咄揚屋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: While this is a mitate-e, these three actors performed their roles at the Tokyo-za in Tokyo on
January 1, 1904
 

               
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as  Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
  
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Ôtaka Gengo (大高源吾)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Satô Yomoshichi (佐藤与茂七)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
   
Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次) as Matsudaira Izu-no-Kami (松平伊豆守)
 
Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 

 

               
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
   
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Otokonosuke (男之助)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Masaoka (政岡)
 
Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Miuranosuke  (三浦之助)
   
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Sasaki Takatsuna (佐々木高綱)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tokihime (時姫)
 
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 

               
Ichikawa Yaozô VII  (市川八百蔵) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Jûjirô (十次郎)
   
Sawamura Tosshô III (沢村訥升) as Musume Hatsugiku (娘初菊)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Haha Satsuki  (母皐月)
 
Play: Taikôki (太閤記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸)
   
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Play: Gojôbashi (五条橋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左エ門)
 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
   
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (勧進帳)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka (しづか)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (市川女寅) as Yoshitsune (義経)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 

               
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Tora-Gozen (虎御前)
   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Soga Jûrô (曽我十郎)
 
Play: Soga Uchiiri (曽我討入)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 
 

Onoe Eizaburô VI (尾上栄三郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
Ichikawa Ennosuke I (市川猿之助) as Shihei (時平)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII  (市川八百蔵) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習 鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/10/09
Medium: Letterpress print
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
 
Note: This appears to be a mitate-e.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Tamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢 )
   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん; 油屋お紺)
 
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵); Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談);
Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
Print Date: 10/11/09
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum