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.

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Inoue Tomomi (御能拜見)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 1, No. 6 Sept. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
[Eight Years as a Showman]
Kōgyōshi to Natsu te Hirou Hachinen (興行師となつて拾う八年)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 1, No. 6 (Sept. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Sekimori Sekibei (関守関兵衛)

Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/12/12
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sumizome (墨染)

Play: Tsumoru Koi Yuki no Seki no To (積恋雪関扉)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/12/12
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center