MIZUSHIMA NIHOFU (水島爾保布)
aka Mizushima Niô 

  Unknown Dates







? as Benten Kozō (弁天小僧)

Play: Aoto Zôshi Hana no Nishikie  (青砥稿花紅彩畫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #5
Personal Collection

Note: This actor might be Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門), who played Benten Kozô at the
Kabuki-za in April 1918, and at the Shintomi-za in
January 1922.

               


Onoe Usaburô II (尾上卯三郎) as
Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)

Play: Tengajaya (天下茶屋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #1
Personal Collection

                

               
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)
Print Date: ?
Medium: Book illustration (lithograph)
Book: ?
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Gennosuke IV first played the role of Otomi in
Tokyo at the Kotobuki-za in September 1888.  His final
Tokyo performance was in a July 1926 JOAK radio
broadcast.