NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1917

               
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Kakiemon (柿右衛門)
 
Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as Imôto Otare (妹おたれ)
 
Plays: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1917)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Minoya Sankatsu (美濃屋三勝)
 
Nakamura Ganjiro I (中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (茜屋半七)
 
Play: Akanesome (あかれ染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date: 03/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (村羽左衛門) as
Ôshûya Reizaburô (奥州屋禮三郎; 奥州屋礼三郎)
 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Komachi Oshizu (小町おしづ)
 
Play: Fubuki no Hana Oshizu Reiza  (吹雪花お静禮三)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/17
Print Date: 04/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 4 (Apr. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

Play: Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/17
Print Date: 05/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 5 (May 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sukeroku (助六)
 
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/17
Print Date: 01/01/19
Medium: Collotype
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1919)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助) as    
Kumokiri Oroku (雲切おろく)
  
Play: Musume Hyoban Zen'aku Kagami
(娘評判善悪鏡; 娘評善悪鏡)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/17
Print Date: 06/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 6 (June 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of Cornell University
 
 
 
 

               
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as Chûbê (忠兵衛)
 
INakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀) as Umekawa (梅川)
 
Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/17
Print Date: 07/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 7 (July 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀), Act II of
Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki Kana
(時今天下知皐哉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#1)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also played this role in a production at
the Yokohama-za in September 1922.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance. The print,
however, strongly resembles a production photograph from
the 1917 production.
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五耶) as Meijin Chôji (名人長治)

Play: Sashimonoshi Meijin Chôji (指物師名人長治)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 08/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Sano Jirôzaemon (佐野次郎左衛門)

Play: Kagotsurube  (籠釣瓶; 篭釣瓶)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/02/17
Print Date: 09/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Fujieda Miyoji (藤枝美代次)
 
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉味) as Segawa Kôtarô (瀬川光太郎)

Play: Tsumigumi Sakazuki (三組盃)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/04/17
Print Date: 10/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 10 (Oct. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Yamanba (山姥)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kaidômaru (怪童丸)

Play: Takigyô Yukima no Ichikawa (薪荷雪間の市川)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/17
Print Date: 12/01/17
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California