Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)

MATSUDA SEIFÛ (松田青風)

1915

APRIL

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

Play: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
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Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Yojirô (與次郎; 与次郎)

Play: Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki
(近頃河原の達引) [Horikawa (堀川)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/08/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
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Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/20/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
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Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/20/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
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JUNE

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (弁天小僧菊之助)

Play: Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06//05/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
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Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Nangô Rikimaru (南郷力丸)

Play: Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
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JULY

Sawamura Tosshi VII (澤村訥子) as
Araki Mataemon (荒木又右衛門)

Play: Araki Mataemon (荒木又右衛門)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
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Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as
Otomi (お富)

Play: Kirare Otomi
(切られお富; きられお富)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/03/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔) Vol. 3
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Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Takezawa Kenmotsu (竹澤監物)

Play: Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
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SEPTEMBER

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Zôhô Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 09/1915?

Note: Although lacking any information about the
subject or the artist, the print's resemblance to Seifû's
print of Sadanji II as Goemon is unmistakable.
However,this might also be by an anonymous artist
copying the Seifû print.

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Play: Zôhô Momoyama Tan (増補桃山譚)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
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OCTOBER

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)

Play: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10//01/15
Print Date: 1915?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
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Note: Although the print is neither dated nor
identifies the actor, the resemblance to Seifu's
Yakusha-e print from 1915 is unmistakeable.
The actor, however, looks younger, and so it
could depict another actor in some unknown
later production.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Furuteya Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛)

Play: Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya
(櫻鍔根鮫鞘; 桜鍔恨鮫鞘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
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Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Banzuiin Chôbei (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Banzui Chôbei (幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection