SHINJÛ NANIWA NO HARUSAME
(心中浪華春雨)

                 
 
Plays: Kichirei Kotobuki Soga (吉例壽曾我); Nakoso no Seki (なこその關); Ichi no Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記); Shinjû Naniwa Harusame (心中浪華春雨); Fuwa Kazuemon (不破數右衛門)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Abe Saburo Munenori (阿部三郎宗任) and
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Yawata Taro Yôshiie (八幡太郎義家) in Nakoso no Seki (なこその關).
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
Fukushimaya Osono (福島屋おその)

Play: Shinjû Naniwa no Harusame
(心中浪華春雨)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/15/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô II played this role multiple
times over the course of his career.  Since
his most recent performance in Tokyo was
at the Hongo-za in January 1915, this likely
depicts a subsequent performance in Kyoto.
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as
Fukushimaya Osono (福島屋おその)

Play: Shinjû Naniwa no Harusame
(心中浪華春雨)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/15/16
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Series: [Famous Actors From East and West
Stage Picture Portraits]
Tôzai Meiyû Butai Esugata
(東西名優 舞臺絵すがた)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: This is a variant version lacking the
silver mica background.