NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1917




 

JULY

                   
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.