UNKNOWN ARTIST

  Senshafuda Set #2



Based on compositional similarities, the artist for this set is also
likely the artist for Unknown Artist - Undated Matchbook Covers #2.
 


Ichikawa Shôchô III (市川松蔦) as
Osato (お里)
 
Play: Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô III performed this role in
Toyko at Toyoko Hall in December 1955
and at the Tokiwa-za in May 1958.

               


Nakamura Fukusuke (中村福助) as
Oshichi (お七)
 
Play:  Some Oschichi-Kichasamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Fukusuke V performed this
role in Kichisama Mairu Yukari
no Otozure (吉様参由縁音信) at
the Shintomi-za in January
1923, and Fukusuke VI performed
 this role in the same play at the
 Meiji-za in June 1936.  Fukusuke
 V also performed this role in
 Oshichi Kichisa (お七吉三) at the
 Hongô-za in May 1924, in
 Shochikubai Yushima no
 Kagegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額) at the
 Hongô-za in February 1926, and in
 Shochikubai Yuki no Akebono
 (松竹梅雪曙) at the Shintomi-za in
 December 1918.  This print
 could depict any one of those
 performances. 
 

               


Kataoka Nizaemon (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
 
Play: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Nizaemon XI performed this role
in Tokyo six times between 1912 and
1929.  Nizaemon XIII performed this
role at the Toyoko Hall in Janaury 1961.

               


Morita Kan'ya XIV (森田勘弥;
森田勘彌) as ?

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

               


Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Kibeya Jûbê (呉服屋十兵衛;
呉服屋重兵衛)
 
Play: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô II performed this role
in Tokyo five times between May 1970
and January 1980.  Ganjirô III
performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kokuritsu Gekijô in October 2004.
 
 
 
 


               


Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role at the
Shintomi-za in May 1915.  Ganjirô III
performed this role at the Kokuritsu Gekijô
in November 2002.




Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)
 
Play: Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki
(黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Sôjûrô VII performed this role in
Tokyo at the Teikoku Geikijô in January
1916, at the Kôen Gekijô in September 1924,
at the Teikoku Geikijô in April 1926, and
the Meiji-za in February 1931.