OTA GAKÔ (太田雅光)
aka Ota Masamitsu

 Kabuki Kumadori Vols. 1-6 (1928-1929)

                 
The Make-Up Congratulating The Imperial Coronation
O-Taiten Hôshuku Kuma (御大典奉祝隈)

Role: Kanabôhiki (金棒曳)
Play: Kuruma-biki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 1
Personal Collection

               
Shakkyô no Kumadori (石橋の隈取)


Role: Lion Spirit
Play: Shakkyo (石橋)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 3
Personal Collection

                 
Face Making-Up of Otokonosuke of Yukashita
(床下男之助の隈)

Role: Otokonosuke (男之助)
Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 4
Personal Collection

               
Kensaki Make-up (劒先の隈)


Role: Morono (師直); Ômi no Kotôta (近江小藤太)
Play: Kanadehon Chushingura (假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵) Prologue; Soga Taimen (曾我対面) and
Soga no Ishidan (曽我の石段; 曾我の石段)
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 40
Personal Collection

                 
Yamanaka Heikurô Kijo no Kuma (山中平九郎鬼女の隈)

Role: Kijo
Play:
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 46
Personal Collection

               
Mukimi Make-up (むきみ隈)

Role:
Play:
Print Date: 11/25/28
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 1, No. 55
Personal Collection

                 
Genroku Shibaraku Kunadori (元禄暫の隈取)

Role: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 11
Personal Collection

               
Make-up of Seimen Kongô (青面金剛の隈取)

Role: Seimen Kongô (青面金剛)
Play: Hidari Jingorô (左甚五郎)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 14
Personal Collection

                 
Antique Make-Up for Matsuo (古代松王隈取)

Role: Matsuomaru (松王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 18
Personal Collection

               
Benkei - Face Making Up (辨慶の隈取)

Role: Benkei (辨慶, 弁慶)
Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所櫻堀川夜討); Hashi Benkei (橋辨慶)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 20
Personal Collection

                 
Make-Up of Stripes (#1) (筋隈)  [aka Sujikuma (#1) (筋隈)]

Role: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 34
Personal Collection

               
Namanari Kumadori (なまなりの隈取)

Role:
Play:
Print Date: 01/25/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 2, No. 63
Personal Collection

                 
Kajiwara in the play Soga Taimen (對面親梶原の隈)

Role: Kajiwara Kagetaka (梶原景高)
Play: Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No. 6
Personal Collection

               
Aisen Myôo Make-up (愛染明王の隈)

Role: Seimen Kongo (青面金剛)
Play: Enmusubi
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No.13
Personal Collection

                 
Sempei Asagao (朝顏仙平の隈)

Role: Asagao Sempei (朝顏仙平)
Play: Sukeroku (助六)
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No. 17
Personal Collection

               
Yakko - Dako (奴凧の隈)

Role: Yakko
Play: Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風)
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No. 57
Personal Collection

                 
Kuge - Are #1 (公家荒の隈)

Role: Kugeaku (公家悪)
Play:
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No. 64
Personal Collection

               
Antique Make-up for Gorô Intruding  (古代言入五郎の隈)

Role: Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)
Play:
Print Date: 03/07/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 3, No. 71
Personal Collection

                 
Kinko (Golden Tiger)  (金虎の隈)

Role: Tora (虎)
Play: Ryûko (竜虎)
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 2
Personal Collection

               
Make-up for a Crab (蟹隈)

Role: Kani (蟹)
Play:
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 16
Personal Collection

                 
One-Red-Lined Make-up  (赤塗一本の隈)


Role: Haradashi (腹出し) warriors
Play: Shibaraku
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 52
Personal Collection

               
Sixty Three Days Make-up (六十三日隈)


Role:
Play:
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 53
Personal Collection

                 
Make-up for an Apparition of a Court Noble
( 公家亡靈の隈)

Role: Abe-no-Nakamaro
Play:
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 68
Personal Collection

               
Antique Make-up for a Fox (古代狐の隈)


Role: Tadanobu (忠信)
Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅),
Act IV, Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Print Date: 04/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 4, No. 72
Personal Collection

                 
Kaidômaru Make-up ( 怪童丸の隈)

Role: Kaidômaru (怪童丸)
Play: Yamanba (山姥)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 12
Personal Collection

               
Make-up of Dojoji-Chizome  (道成寺血染の隈)

Role: Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子) as
Kiyohime ( 清姫)
Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 26
Personal Collection

                 
Make-up Uwanari (古代嫐の隈)

Role: Kuretake (呉竹)/Kasuga (春日)
Play: Uwanari (嫐)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 33
Personal Collection

               
One Lined Make-up #1 (一本隈)

Role: Watônai (和藤内); Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦); Ga no Iwai,
Act III, Scene 2 of Sugawara Denju Tenari Kagami
(菅原傳授手習鑑)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 49
Personal Collection

                 
Abridged Make-up of Kugeare (公家荒隈の略し)

Role: Kugeaku (公家悪)
Play:
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 67
Personal Collection

               
Bat Make-Up  (蝙蝠隈)

Role: 8 Servants; Asagao Sempei (朝顏仙平); Sixty-
Three Day Make-up
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 05/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 5, No. 70
Personal Collection

                 
Make-up Kumagai (能谷の隈)

Role: Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 8
Personal Collection

               
Fudô (不動)

Role: Fudô (不動)
Play:
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 15
Personal Collection

                 
Make-up "Gama" (The Toad) (蝦蟇隈)

Role:
Play:
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 21
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Make-up Sujikuma (#2) (筋隈)

Role: Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)?
Play: Shibaraku (暫)?
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 35
Personal Collection

                 
Make-up Eels (鯰隈)

Role: Spirit of the Eels
Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 44
Personal Collection

               
Make-up Kuge-are (#2)  (公家荒の隈)

Role: Kugeaku (公家悪)
Play:
Print Date: 06/13/29
Series: Kabuki Kumadori (歌舞伎隈取), Vol. 6, No. 65
Personal Collection