NIHONBASHI
(日本橋)

                   
Kitamura Rokurô (喜多村緑郎; 喜多村綠郞) as
Okô (お孝)

Play:  Nihonbashi (日本橋)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/04/15
Print Date: [1932-1934]
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)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is
possible that this print was never editioned.  There was a
film version of Nihonbashi released in February 1929,
but Rokurô did not appear in that film. 
 
 
 

               
Hanayagi Shôtarô (花柳章太郎) as Ochiyo (お千世)

Play: Nihonbashi (日本橋)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/15
Print Date: 03/01/20
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 5, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 
 
 

                    
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎)
 
Plays: Shingouki (信号旗);  Nankan Toppa (難関突破); Yaegaki Monogatari (八重垣物語); Nihonbashi
(日本橋);  Kuruizaki (狂ひ咲)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/16/29
Print Date: 05/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
Note: This appears to be a parody version of the Shimpa play.