TANAKA SHIKÔ (田中紫光)

1925

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
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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: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
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Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed
this role multiple times during his career,
he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when
Shikô was actively making prints.  It is
possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the
Teikoku Geikijô in June 1927.
 
 
 
 
  

               
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: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed this role multiple
times during his career, he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when Shikô was actively
making prints.  It is possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the Teikoku Geikijô in June
1927.  This print closely resembles one made by Miyake
Hanayama (三宅花山) around the same time.  One wonders if
they might be the same artist or if Shikô was a pseudonym
adopted by a publisher who knocked off Hanayama's design.

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)

Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura
(敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/25
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
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L: Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) as Komatsuya Sôshichi
(小松屋宗七);
R: Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)

Play: L: Hakata Kojorô Nami
Makura (博多小女郎浪枕);
R: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura
(敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: L: ?; R: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: ?; R: 05/03/25
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
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Note: I have found a record of Kan'ya
XIII performing the role of
Komatsuya Sôshichi at the Teikoku
Gekijô in in April 1928, but this seems
to be too late in time given some of the
other performance dates for other
senshafuda in this series.