TANAKA RYÔ (田中良) 

 1917

               
? as ?

Play: ? 
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/01/17
Artist:  ? [presumably Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)]
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1917)
 
 
 
 

               
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片山小左衛門) as
Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

Play: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 11/01/19
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 11  (Nov. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Nizaemon XI would perform this role at the Teikoku Gekijô
in November 1919 but the portrait necessarily would have had
to have been done before the production opened.  He also
performed this role at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1912.
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Gosho no Gorozô (御所五郎藏)

Play: Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô (親譲御所五郎藏)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/17
Print Date: 05/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 

               
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Chôbei (長兵衛)

Play:Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbei (極附幡隨長兵衞)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/17
Print Date: 07/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
    

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play: Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/17
Print Date: 02/01/20
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (谷口香嶠)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 5, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1920)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sashichi (佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role at the Teikoku Gekijô in
June 1917, although the portrait would have been made before
the play opened.   His prior performance in Tokyo was at the
Kabuki-za in October 1908. 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ikushima (生島)

Play: Kyôran Ikushima (狂亂生嶋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/17
Print Date: 08/01/19
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University   
 
 

               
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Kagekiyo (清景)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University  
 
 

               
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/01/17
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 2, No. 11  (Nov. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Danjuro IX performed this role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za
in December 1878 and at the Kabuki-za in November 1895.   
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/17
Print Date: 06/01/19
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 6 (June 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: During the Taishô period, Kôshirô VII also performed this
role at the Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo in April 1914 and January 1917.  
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Aoyama Harima (青山播磨)

Play: Banchô Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 03/01/19
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Shin Engei (新演藝),
Vol. 4, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1919)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Sadanji II also performed this role in Tokyo at the Hongô-za
in February 1916.