NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1912

                   
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Tamagawa Kiyoshi (玉川清)

Play:  Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Print Date: [~1929-1934]
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note: Ii Yôhô first performed the role of Kiyoshi (with
Kawai Takeo) in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in January 1907.

                   
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Chôzan (丁山)

Play:  Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Print Date: [~1929-1934]
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is possible
that this print was never editioned.  Kawai Takeo first performed
the role of Chôzan (with Ii Yôhô) in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in
January 1907.  He reprised the role at the Meiji-za in November
1915, at the  Kabuki-za in March 1918, and at the Minamiza
(Abuza Tokyo) in March 1924.  It is possible that Shunsen based
this print on one of these later performances.