TANAKA SHIKÔ (田中紫光)

1924

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 04/01/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
 

Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Marubashi Chûya
(丸橋忠弥; 丸橋忠彌)

Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 05/03/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Onoe Eizaburô VII
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as
Osato (お里)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/12/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Note: Eizaburô VII died on May 7,
1926.

            
Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (武智光秀)

Play:  Go Sanji Ume no Yoshibê
(御存梅由兵衞))
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/24
Print Date:  ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed
this role at the Hôgaku-za in April
1925.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects
that performance.
 
 

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji
 (京鹿子娘道成寺 )
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/12/24
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection

Pochibukuro folder

Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro folder
 
Note:  Although twelve pochibukuro
came with this folder, in light of the
cover it is likely that only a subset of
the Kichiemon I and Kikugorô VI
pochibukuro were originally contained
within.

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji  (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/12/24
Print Date: 1924?
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                               
                Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
                Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) 

                Play: Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原}
                Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 05/09/24
                Print Date: 05/1924?
                Medium: Lithograph?
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
                Note: In the 1920s when Shikô was actively designing prints,
                Kichiemon I also performed this role in Agehachô
                Homare Kajiwara Kajiwara (揚羽蝶誉梶原) at the Shintomi-za
                in January 1923 and in Kajiwara Heizô Homare Ishikiri
                (梶原平三誉石切) at the Hongô-za in January 1927.  I cannot
                rule out the possibility that this print reflects one of these other   
                performances.
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum