UNKNOWN ARTIST

  Senshafuda Set #1


Note:  These prints are stylistically similar to prints made by Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光) in the early 1920s.
  


Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)
 
Play:  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
(近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/24
Print Date: 1924?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: See the Hasegawa Sadanobu
III - Undated Pochibukuro #2 section
for a related pochibukuro.

               


Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
 
Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Matsusuke IV performed this
role in Tokyo at least four times between
1916 and 1927.
 
 
  
 
 

               


Jitsukawa Enjaku II
(実川延若; 實川延若) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)
 
Play:  Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
 Note: During the 1920s, Enjaku II
performed this role in Tokyo at the
Hôgaku-za in November 1924 and at
the Asakusa Shochiku-za in February
1926.
 
 


               


Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Gotôbê (五斗兵衛)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Koshigoejô
(義経腰越状)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/20
Print Date: 1920?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

               


Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection


               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection




Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Sukeroku (助六)
 
Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Kôen Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1924
Print Date: 1924?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

               


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi  (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI performed this role in
Tokyo at least four times between 1916
and 1927.


               


Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門)
 
Play:  Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Kan'ya XIII  performed this role
in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in December
1918.

               


Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Play:  Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Danshirô II performed this role in
Tokyo at least three times between 1915
and 1918.  Danshirô III performed this
role in Tokyo at the Shinjuku Dai Ichi
Gekijô in January 1938.
 
 
 
 
 
 

               


Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection


               


Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)
 
Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at least three times between 1919
and 1936.

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Sawamura Gennosuke IV
(沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as
?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: See the Hasegawa Sadanobu
III - Undated Pochibukuro #2 section
for a related pochibukuro.



               


Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note:  Uzaemon XV performed this role
in Tokyo at least four times between
1916 and 1927.

               


Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection


               


Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/23
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this print depicts
Chûsha VII's performance at the
Minami-za, Tokyo, in November 1923
or at the Shôchiku Theatre in October
1924.


               


Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
as Yodogimi (淀君)

Play:  Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu
(沓手鳥孤城落月)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Utaemon V performed this role in
Tokyo at least ten times between 1913
and 1939 .   He also played the character
in a play called Kiri Hitoha ( 桐一葉) at
the Kabuki-za in October 1919 and at the
Hongo-za in October 1924, in a play
called Ôsakajô (大阪城) at the Kabuki-za
in January 1921, in a play called Seki-ga-
Hara at the Kabuki-za in April 1925, and
in a play called Yodogimi Odawarajin
(淀君小田原陣) at the Kabuki-za in
April 1926.
 
 
  
 

               


Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: See the Hasegawa Sadanobu
III - Undated Pochibukuro #2 section
for a related pochibukuro.   It likely
depicts Nizaemon XI as Yojirô (与次郎)
in Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki
(近頃河原の達引).


Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Danshichi Kurobei (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Sono Sugata Danshichi Jima
(其姿団七縞)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection



               


? as
?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: See the Hasegawa Sadanobu
III - Undated Pochibukuro #2 section
for a related pochibukuro.



               


Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
   
Note: See the Hasegawa Sadanobu
III - Undated Pochibukuro #2 section
for a related pochibukuro.

               


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

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda



               


? as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda


               


Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形 半平太)
 
Play: Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形半平太)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/21/21
Print Date: 1921?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

Note: Shôjirô subsequently performed
the role in Tokyo at the at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za in November 1922, at the
Shinbashi Enbujô in July 1924, at the
Asakusa Shochiku-za in June 1925, at
the Teikoku Gekijô in August 1926, and
at the Ichimura-za in March 1928.
 
 
 
 
 

               


 


? as as Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
 
Play: as Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: This battledore senshafuda may
be from an unrelated series.

               


? as Sanbasô (三番叟)
 
Play: Okina (翁) or a Sanbasômono
(三番叟物) play
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda


               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/10/25
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

Note: Although this senshafuda lacks a
battledore, it appears to be from the
same series.  It suggests that some of
the prints in the series were issued on
January 10, 1925.
 
 
 
 

               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

Note: Although this senshafuda lacks a
battledore, it appears to be from the
same series.

               


Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

               



               


? as Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)
 
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

               


? as Tomoe Gozen
(巴御前)
 
Play: Onna Shibaraku
(女暫; 女しばらく)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/10/25
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda

               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/10/25
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda


               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Although this
senshafuda lacks
a battledore, it appears
to be from the same
series, having been
acquired in the same lot.

               


? as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock
printed senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Although this
senshafuda lacks a
battledore, it appears to
be from the same series,
having been acquired
in the same lot.
 
 
 

               


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Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

               


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Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

               


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Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda