OTA GAKÔ (太 田雅光)
aka Ota Masamitsu

1933

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#14)
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unpublished design.  Baikô VI died on November
8, 1934 at age 65.  He first played the role of Togakushi
no Kijo in this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.
Although Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role
was in October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this
print on one of Baikô VI's prior performances.
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Togakushi no Kijo (戸隠の鬼女)

Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/33
Print Date: 1953
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#9)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Togakushi no Kijo in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1903.  Although
Baikô VI's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
October 1933, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Baikô VI's prior performances.