Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴)  as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Horikawa Gosho (堀川御所), Act I, Scene 3 of
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/24
Print Date: 1926
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#16)
*Personal Collection
 
Note: Shikaku II also performed this role at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za, Tokyoin January 1926.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance.
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴) as Hatsugiku (初菊)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochikuza, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 10/01/25
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 10) (三十六家選 (その十))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴) as Osome (お染)

Play: Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/27
Print Date: 01/01/28
Artist: Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashin (演藝寫真), Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1928)
Personal Collection
 
 

                 
[Hell Screen] Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
 
Play: Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
Performance Place: Kabukii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/53
Print Date:
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cast of this production included Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
(中村勘三郎) as Eshi Yoshihide (絵師良秀), Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII
(松本幸四郎) as Horikawa Daijin (堀河大臣), Nakamura Utaemon VI
(中村歌右衛門)  as  Yoshihide Musume Ro 艸 (良秀娘露艸) and as
Tsuyukusa (露草), Nakamura Shikaku II (中村 芝鶴) as ? (    ), Nakamura
Matagorō II (中村又五郎) as Deshi Hanada Waka, Morita Kan'ya XIV
(守田 勘弥) as Deshi Fudeo (弟子筆雄), and Sawamura Sōjūrō VIII
(沢村宗十郎) as Midai Aoi no Kata (御台葵の方).