FUBUKI NO HANA OSHIZU REIZA (吹雪花於静禮三)

aka KOISO-GA-HARA YUKI NO SHIGARAMI (小磯原雪柵)
aka NORIZOME SOGA OGYÔ NO MATSU (魁駒曾我御行松)
aka KEISEI SOGA KURUWA KAGAMI (契情曾我廓亀鑑)
aka OSHIZU REIZA (お静礼三; 於静禮三)

                   
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Narihira Reizô (業平礼三郎)
[Ôshûya Reizaburô (奥州屋禮三郎; 奥州屋礼三郎)]

Play: Koisogahara (小磯ヶ原; 小磯ケ原), Act III of
Fubuki no Hana Oshizu Reiza (吹雪花於静禮三)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/12
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#18)
*Personal Collection

Note: The only record I can find of Sôjûrô VII  performing
this role in Tokyo was at the Teikoku Gekijô in May 1912. 
Presumably, this print is based on a later performance outside
of Tokyo, such as in Yokohama.
 
 
 
 
   

                 
 
Plays: Ai to Urami (愛と怨); Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Koiso-ga-Hara (小磯ヶ原);
Fuku no Kami (福の神)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/12
Print Date: 05/15/12
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum