MUSUKO
(息子)

                    
Plays: Dankyô (斷橋); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神靈矢口渡);  Yasuna (保名); Musuko (息子);
Kyôkaku Harusame Kasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
[Son] Musuko (息子)

Performance Place: Asakusa Shôchiku za
Performance Date: 02/15/1928
Print Date: 1929
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art

Note: There were also productions of Musuko in 1923,
1925, 1926, and 1927.  It is possible that this print
reflects one of those prior performances.
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kinjirô (金次郎)

Play:  Musuko (息子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1946
Print Date: 1958
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note:  Kikugorô VI first performed the role of
Kinjirô in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô in March
1923.  He reprised the role at the Shinbashi
Enbujô in May 1925.  Since Kikugorô VI died
in 1949, this could be considered a memorial print.