Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子) as Fan'nii' (ファンニイ)

Play: Appare Wongu (天晴れウォング)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/30
Print Date: 10/13/30
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清 水三重三)
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Note: Published in Mokuhan Shin-Nigao-e (木版新似顔絵), Vol. 1,  by Hanga Kurabu
 

                   
Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子) as
Tsubaki-hime (椿姫)

Play:  Tsubaki-hime [La Traviata] (椿姫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/30
Print Date: [1931-1932]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Yaeko previously played this role at the Hongô-za
in September 1927 and at the Asakusa Shochiku-za in
March 1928.  It is possible that Shunsen based this print
one of those prior performances. 
 
 
 

                 
Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子) as Mitsue (光枝)

Play: Uyûge (有憂華)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/31
Print Date: 03/16/31
Artist: Inagaki Tomoo (稲垣知雄)
Series: [Teigeki March Show Prints] Teigeki Sangatsu Kōgyō Hanga
(帝劇三月興行版画)
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Mizutani Yaeko (水谷八重子丈) as
Ochô (お蝶)

Play: Ochô Fujin (お蝶夫人)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/53
Print Date: 07/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#4)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Yaeko first played the role of Ochô in this play in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1952.  Although
Yaeko's final Tokyo appearance in this role before the the
publication of this print was in September 1953, it is 
possible that Gakô based this print on Yaeko's
performance at the Kabuki-za.
 
 
  

                   
Mizutani Yaeko i or II  (水谷八重子)

Play: ?
Performance Date: ?
Performance Pace: ?
Print Date: 1982
Artist: Nakajima Tsûzen (中島通善)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Mizutani Yaeko I (水谷八重子) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Date: ?
Performance Pace: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Series: Shinpa Haiyû Gakuya Kagami  (新派俳優楽屋鏡)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
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Mizutani Yaeko I (水谷八重子) as Ototku (お徳)

Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as
Onoe Kikunosuke II (尾上菊之助)

Play: Zangiku Monogatari (残菊物語)
Performance Date: ?
Performance Pace: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda

Note:  Yaeko I and Shôtarô appeared in the Tokyo premiere
at the Meiji-za in October 1937 and in several subsequent
revivals, either together or with other actors.  Shôtarô starred
in the 1939 movie version.  The last time that they appeared
together that I've been able to confirm was at the Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo, in February 1952.  As the print would have
been made after Shôtarô's death in 1965 and probably after
Yaeko I's death in 1979, it is logical to assume that Hasashi
would have based the print on its premiere Tokyo performance
in 1937.