OTA GAKÔ (太田雅光)
aka Ota Masamitsu

 
Unknown Dates

                   
Series: Meifu no Miyage shi Gei no Omokage (冥府苞苴劇容彩)
Date: 1950 or later
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unpublished design.  This appears to be a design for the
porftfolio cover or insert thereto.

                 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Hayami no Tôta (早見藤太; 逸見藤太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#10)
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unpublished design.   Kan'ya XIII (erroneously denominated
Kan'ya XIV on the print) died on June 16, 1932 at age 48.
 

                 
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as Chiyo (千代)

Play: Ga no Iwai (賀の祝), Act III, Scene 2 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (鑭陸奥實記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1950 or later
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#25)
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unpublished design.  Kaisha died on March 13, 1945 at age
71.  I can find no record of Kaisha playing Chiyo in any
production of Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami in Tokyo. 
Kaisha did, however, play a character named Chiyo in a
March 1940 production of Awa no Konayuki (阿波の粉雪)
at the Tokyo Gekijô,

                 
Kijo (鬼女)

Play: Tsuchi Gumo (土蜘)
Print Date: ?
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a
lithograph, or a painting.

                 
Yanone (矢の根)

Play: Yanone (矢の根)
Print Date: ?
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a
lithograph, or a painting.

                    
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Hanako in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in September 1912.  His final
performance in Tokyo was at the Tokyo-za in January
1948.  Without knowing the date of the print, it is
difficult to know the precise performance depicted.  There
are, however, costume similarities to a photograph from a
December 1938 production at the Kabuki-za.  Since
Kiugorô VI died in July 1949, it is likely the print was
made on or before 1949, or perhaps as a memorial print.
 
 
 

 

               
Inudoshi ni In mo (戌歳に因も):
Hakkenden Toyama Hora no Fuse-hime
(八犬傳富山洞の伏姫)

Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden (南総里見八犬傳)
Print Date: ?
Series: Edo Tako-e (江戸凧繪)
Image courtesy of Henk Herwig

                   
Nedoshi ni In mo (子歳に因も):
Yukashita no Arajishi Otokonosuke
(床下の荒獅士男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Print Date: ?
Series: Edo Tako-e (江戸凧繪)
Image courtesy of Henk Herwig

                 
Toradoshi ni In mo (寅歳に因も):
Kuniseijī Katsusen no Watônai
(國姓爺合戰の和藤内)

Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (國性爺合戦)
Print Date: ?
Series: Edo Tako-e (江戸凧繪)
Image courtesy of Henk Herwig
 
 
 

                   
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)
 
Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Date: ?
Personal Collection

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  This appears to be a design for the
porftfolio cover or insert thereto.

                   
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Date: ?
Medium: Lithographic Poster
Personal Collection