MIZUSHIMA NIHOFU (水島爾保布)
aka Mizushima Niô 

  1918

               
[Stage Mask Sketch] Butai Men Suketsuchi (舞臺面スケツチ)

Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/01/18
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 3, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Yohê (与兵衛)

Play: Hikimado (引窓), Act VIII of Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/07/18
Print Date: 12/01/19
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 

               

Play: Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 07/03/18
Print Date: 08/01/18
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 3, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 

               

Play: Keisei Hangonko (傾城反魂香)
Performance Place: Naniwa-za, Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/01/18
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 3, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1918)
Image courtesy of Columbia University    
 
 

               
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as
Kirare Otomi (切られお富)

Play: Kirare Otomi (切られお富)
Performance Place: Mikuni-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/29/18
Print Date: 05/01/20
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 5, No. 5 (May 1, 1920)
Personal Collection

Note: Gennosuke IV first played the role of Otomi in
Tokyo at the Kotobuki-za in September 1888 and numerous times
since then.   This print could reflect one of those earlier performances.