Hasegawa Sadanobu/Konobu III (長谷川貞信)

HASEGAWA SADANOBU III (長谷川貞信)
aka HASEGAWA KONOBU III (長谷川小信)

1941

Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Image courtesy of the Tsuboouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Musashibô Benkei (武藏坊辨慶; 武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳; 勸進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Personal Collection

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: Ya-no-Ne (矢之根)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Shishi (獅子)

Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Personal Collection

Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Hikari Shobô

Cover and List of Prints
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Hikari Shobô

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Atsumori (敦盛)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as Takechiyo

? as [Masaoka's son]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)

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

Play: Nijô-jô no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kimura Shigenari (木村重成)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role opposite Uzaemon XV three times
at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1935, April 1939, and October 1941.
One or more of those productions likely toured Osaka around those times.

? as Watônai (和藤内)

Play: Kokusen'ya Gassen (国性爺合戦)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)

Play: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I performed the role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in February 1939. That production likely
toured Osaka around that time.

? as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)

? as Godaigo Tennô (後醍醐天皇)

Play: Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Note: This play was performed at the Osaka Kabuki-za
in at least October 1933, October 1937, November 1937,
and in November 1940.

? as [Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)]?

Play: Act VII, Juni Toki Chûshingura (十二時忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: Ya no Ne (矢の根)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 02/01/37
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

? as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

? as Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)

? as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Ataka no Seki (安宅関)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued aspart of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Ojaku as Kajiwara Heizo (梶原平三)

Kataoka Hiderô (片岡**) as
Rokurôdayû (六郎太夫)

Nakamura Seitarô as Kozue (梢)

Play: Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原), Act 3 of
Miura no Ôsuke Ôbai Tazuna (三浦大助紅梅たづな)

Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: These actors performed their respective roles in a
production at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in January 1934.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Matsunaga Daizen (松永大膳)

Play: Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Act IV of
Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Uzaemon XV and Kôshirô VII performed their
roles together at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in February
1934. That production likely toured Osaka around
that time.

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sôgo (宗吾)

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Jinbei (甚兵)

Play: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Kichiemon I and Tomoemon VI performed their
roles together at the Meiji-za in Toyko in February 1937.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

Nakamura Baigyoku III (中村梅玉) as Masaoka (政岡)

? as [Masaoka's child]

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Bandô Jûzaburô (坂東重三郎) as
Wada [no Hyôe Hidemori] (和田)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono (三番叟物) play
Print Date: 1952
Booklet Cover for Print Series: Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第)
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection