MORI SHUNCHÔ (森
春島)
1923
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Abe no Yasuna (阿倍保名; 安倍保名)
Play: Yasuna (保名)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection
Note: I cannot rule out the possibility that this print depicts
Kikugorô VI as Yasuna in a production of Kosode
Monogurui (小袖物狂ひ) at the Ichimura-za in February
1922. Shunchô was a pupil of Natori Shunsen and was
assisted by Shunsen in this design.