OTA GAKÔ (太 田雅光)
aka Ota Masamitsu

1952

                            
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kiyomasa (清正)

Play: Kiyomasa Sichûroku ( 清正誠忠録)
(aka Kiyomasa Wakare no Hito Fushi (清正別離諷))
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1952
Series:  Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#6)
Personal Collection (#42)

Note: Kichiemon I first played the role of Kiyomasa in
this play in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in April 1915.  If
the publication date of this print precedes Kichiemon
I's final Tokyo performance in April 1952, then Gakô
would have based this print on Kichiemon I's
penultimate Tokyo performance at the Tokyo Gekijô
in November 1948 or else on some other prior
performance.
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1953
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#12)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fujitsubo (藤壺)

Play: Genji Monogatari (源氏物語)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1952
Print Date: 1954?
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#8)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Baikô VII first played the role of Fujitsubo in this play
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in March 1951, and again at the
Kabuki-za in October of the same year.  It is possible that
Gakô based this print on one of these prior performances.
 
 
 

                    
Matsumoto Kôshirô VIII (松本幸四郎) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Kuruma Biki (車引), Act III, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑;  菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/23/52
Print Date: 09/1954
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#6)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VIII first played the role of Matsuômaru in
this play in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in March 1951, so it is
possible that Gakô based this print on one of Kôshirô
VIII's prior Tokyo performances.
 
   

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Akutarô (悪太郎)


Play: Akutarô (悪太郎)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/52
Print Date: 1952
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#8)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ennosuke II first played the role of Akutarô in this
play in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in June 1924.  If the
publication date of this print precedes Ennosuke II's
final Tokyo performance in December 1952, then Gakô
would have based this print on Ennosuke II's penultimate
Tokyo performance at the Shinjuku Daiichi Gekijô in
June 1944. or else on some other prior performance.
 
 
 
  

                 
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/52
Print Date: 1955?
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#9)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum