Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助)
Otomi (お富)
Play: Kirare Otomi (切られお富)
[Musume Gonomi Ukina no Yokogushi
(處女翫浮名横櫛)]
Performance Place: Kanda Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/24
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩) (#17)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design. Gennosuke IV died on April 20, 1936
at age 78. He first played the role of Otomi in this play in
Tokyo at the Kotobuki-za in September 1888, and his final
Tokyo performance was in a July 1926 JOAK radio
broadcast. This print, however, closely resembles a
photograph from the March 1924 production at the
Kanda Gekijô.