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
 
 

                 
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.