OTA GAKÔ (太 田雅光)
aka Ota Masamitsu

1954

               
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/54
Print Date: 11/1954
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#7)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Tokizô III first played the role of Shizuka Gozen in
this play in Tokyo at the Hongô-za in January 1928. 
Although Utaemon V's last Tokyo appearance in this
role before the publication date of the print was in
April 1954, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Tokizô III's prior performances.
 
 

               
Ichikawa Jukai III (市川寿海; 市川壽海) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1954
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#3)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Jukai III's first appearance as Shirai Gonpachi in
Tokyo appears to have been in a production of Sono
Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓) at the Kabuki-za
in November 1959, four years after the date of this print. 
He also appeared in productions at the Asakusa Shôchiku-
za in January 1927, and at the Osaka Kabuki-za in April
1946 and May 1947, but under his prior name of Ichikawa
Sumizô VI.  He also appeared as Gonpachi in productions
of  Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
and Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) at the Asakusa Shôchiku-za in
January 1914 and January 1925, respectively, but again as
Sumizô VI, not Jukai III.