ITÔ SHINSUI (伊東深水)

 1925






JANUARY

               
Nakamura Shikaku II (中村芝鶴) as Hatsugiku (初菊)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (繪本太功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochikuza, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 10/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 10) (三十六家選 (その十))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 





FEBRUARY

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郞) as Yayoi (弥生)

Play: Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/25
Print Date: 01/01/26
Artist:  Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 13) (三十六家選 (その十三))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1926)
Personal Collection
 
 



MAY

                   
Makuai [Interval] (幕間)

Print Date: 05/1925
*Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Note: Although this appears to be a conventional bijin
print, the title indicates that the woman is attending a
theatrical performance.  Moreover, the publisher
subsequently issued a May 1926 print by Kawase Hasui
 entitled "Kabuki-za (歌舞伎座)" to be a companion
print to this design.
 




JULY



               
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Tokihime (時姬)

Play: Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/25
Print Date: 09/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 9) (三十六家選 (その九))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection  
 
 





NOVEMBER

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Onoe (尾上)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山旧錦絵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 11/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 11) (三十六家選 (その十一))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Utaemon V portrayed Onoe in a production at the Shintomi-za in
February 1922.  This might reflect a later regional performance.