Nakamura Fukusuke VII (中村福助) as
Osome (お染)

Play: Osome (お染)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1948
Print Date: 01/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 

                   
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Watashimori Oshizu (渡し守おしづ)

Play: Hôkaibô (法界坊)
[Sumidagawa Gonichi no Omokage (隅田川続俤)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/1982
Print Date: 09/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 8)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第三期大首絵シリーズの8)
Personal Collection (#3/27)

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Ukyô Tsuma Okinoi (右京妻沖の井)

Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門)  as
Menoto Masaoka (乳人政岡)

Play: Sendai Hagi (先代萩)
[Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/83
Print Date: 05/1983
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 19)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 19
 (第三期大首絵シリーズの19)
Personal Collection (#20/36)

Note: 7 copies from the edition of  were destroyed by the artist.

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Toshima Oryû (年増お柳)

Play: Toshima (年増)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/84
Print Date: 04/1984
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits IV (Design 1)]
Daishi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 1
(第三期大首絵シリーズの1)
Personal Collection (#6/45)

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/ Byakko (白狐)

Play: Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Act IV of
Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/86
Print Date: 07/1986
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits V, Six Busts of Female Role Specialists]
Daigo-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu Onnagata Ôkubi Roku Sugata
(第五期大首絵シリーズ・女形大首六姿)
Personal Collection (#11/54)
 
Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).
 
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date:  01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#15/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed.  Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy.  This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/1981).
2. Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
3. Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Kawashô, Act I of  Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (1979/01/1979).
4. Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as Naosuke Gonbê (直助権兵衛) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談),Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/1983).
5. Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) in
Kagekiyo (景清), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/02/1984).
6. Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1983).
7. Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/Byakko (白狐) in
Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/01/1986).
8. Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七) in
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1987).
9. Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as Kô no Moronô (高師直) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1986).
10. Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助) in
Keya-mura (毛谷村), Act IX of Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1997).
11. Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as Sakuraya Koman (桜屋小万) in
Godairiki Koi no Fujime (五大力恋緘), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (09/01/1989).
12. Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎) in
Jiraiya (児雷也), Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo (11/01/1992).
 
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Osome (お染)

Play: Nozakimura (野崎村), Volume 1, Scene 2 of
Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1991
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection 4/42 K; 1/55 K;  4H3 K
 
Note: During the relevant publication period for this print,
Shikan VII also portrayed Osome in productions of
Nozakimura at the Kabuki-za in January 1980, at the
Misono-za in Nagoya in October 1985, and on tour in
July 1983.
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Kôshitsu Hagi-no-Kata (後室萩の方)

Play: Tamamo-no-mae Asahi no Tamoto (玉藻前曦袂)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/91
Print Date: 11/1991
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VIII (Design 9)]
Daihachi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 9
(第七期大首絵シリーズの9)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com

Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
(加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo   
Performance Date: 09/02/94
Print Date: 06/1997
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Shikan - Ohatsu (芝翫 - お初)
Personal Collection (#5/100)

                
                 Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                 Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                 (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                 Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                 Performance Date: 09/02/94
                 Print Date: 06/1997
                Artist: Paul Binnie
                 Print Title: Shikan - Ohatsu (芝翫 - お初)
                 Personal Collection

                 Note: Color test print
 
 

                                 
                Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Ohatsu (お初)

                Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie
                (加賀見山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦絵; 鏡山旧錦繪)
                Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo  
                Performance Date: 09/02/94
                Print Date: 03/2008
                Artist: Paul Binnie
                Print Title: Narikomaya no Mudagaki (成駒屋のむだ書)
                Medium: color woodblock (background and keyblock
                outline) with kappazuri coloring
                Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
                Personal Collection (#7/35)

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as
Yukihime (雪姫)

Play: Kinkakuji (金閣寺), Act IV of
Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection
 
Note: Shikan VII performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in January 1971 and January 1976.

                 
Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo? Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection

Note: Shikan VII performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in February 1978 and April 1983, at the Asakusa Kôkaidô
in February 1984, at the Kabuki-za in September 1985, at
the Shinbashi Enbujô in June 1993, and at the Kabuki-za in
November 1994, September 2001, March 2004, and October
2008.