Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as ?
 
? as ?
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Nan Yohê (南与兵衛)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Nuregami no Chôgorô (濡髪の長五郎)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as ?
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as ?
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Omiwa (お三輪)
 
Plays:  Tsukiyukihana Nagori no Bundai (雪花名残文台); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Yakudoshi (厄年)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover 
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Shin Sarayashiki Tsuki no Amagasa
(新皿屋舗月雨暈); Shunkyô Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子); Taiheiki Asahi no Yoroi (太平記曦鎧)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/03/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Shishi no Sei (獅子の精) in Shunkyô
Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子); and Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵),  Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎),
and an unknown actor in unknown roles.
 
 
 

                    
 
Plays:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Ôtsue (大津絵);  Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge (蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane
(熊谷次郎直実) in Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Fuji
Musume (藤娘) in Ôtsue (大津絵);  Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kurobê (九郎兵衛) and  Bandô
Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Hyakushô Manbê (百姓万兵衛) in Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人); and
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵), Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵), and  Bandô Hikosaburô VI
(坂東彦三郎) in unknown roles.
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Kame (亀)

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as Tsuru (鶴)

Play: Tsuru Kame (鶴亀)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1929
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#36)
Personal Collection

Note: Although the print bears a 1928 date, it was not
actually published until 1929.  Nonetheless, this suggests that
the performance depicted transpired on or before 1928.
 

Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as
Hayase Iori (早瀬伊織)
           
Play: Daiganjôju Tengajaya-mura (大願成就天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1948
Print Date: 09/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Mitsukoshi Kabuki Hanga (三越歌舞伎版画)
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com

            
            Three Dance Performances:
            Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
            Tobi no Mono Matsukichi (鳶の者松吉)

            Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as
            Yatsutaki Taira (奴瀧平)
 
            Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
            Benten Oteru (弁天おてる)
            
            Plays: Sarutori (さる酉; 申酉); Tonbi
            Yakko (とんび奴; 鳶奴); Karigane
            (雁がね; 雁金)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/1948
            Print Date: 09/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Mitsukoshi Kabuki Hanga
            (三越歌舞伎版画)
            Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com
 
 
 

Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Yoemon (与右衛門)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XVI (市村羽左衛門) as Kasane (かさね)
           
Play: Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/1949
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: [Kabuki Calendar] Kabuki Karendâ (歌舞伎カレンダー) [October]
Medium: Colored woodblock print, possibly with hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
 

                 
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?
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#9)
Personal Collection
 

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Azuma Yoshirô (吾妻與四郎; 吾妻与四郎)

Play:  Modori Kago Iro ni Aikata (戻駕色相肩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: I can find no record of Sadanji III performing this
role.  He did portray Yoshirô under his previous name of
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) at the Tokyo Gekijô in
April 1949.  It is possible that the painting study for this
print was done at that time, but with Sadanji III's
intervening name change prior to the publication of the
print, a decision was made to use Sadanji III's current name.  
Or perhaps the print was based on some performance that
Sadanji gave outside of Tokyo.  The print itself resembles a
photograph from a production at the Ichimura-za in
September 1915 when he performed the role under the
name of  Ichikawa Otora IV (市川男寅).

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次 市川左團次) as
Abe no Yasuna (安倍保名)

Play:  Yasuna (保名)
Performance Place: Tôyoko Hall, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1956
Print Date: 09/1956 or later
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but  more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs (and appears to be a painting).  Another
verison of this print exist without the butterflies
hand-painted in the upper left corner.
 

Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎);
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎); Nakamura Fukusuke IV
(中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次)
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
        澤村宗十郎); Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門);
        Ichikawa Sadanji III (市川左団次; 市川左團次; Nakamura
        Kaisha I (中村魁車).

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
        pochibukuro shown above: Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車);
        Ichikawa Sadanji III  (市川左団次; 市川左團次); Jitsukawa
        Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若);  Nakamura Fukusuke IV
        (中村福助)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
 
 
 

Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: ?; Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童);
Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助); Ichikawa Sadanji III
(市川左団次; 市川左團次); Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) 

Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

 
  Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵)
  as Kichisa (吉三)

   Play:  Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三)
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover
  
   Note: Omezô IV performed this
   role at the Hōgaku- za in
   December 1927.  Omezô IV
   also performed  the role of Obô
   Kichisa in Sannin Kichisa
   (三人吉三) at the Mitsukoshi
   Gekijô in February 1948.