NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1923

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection

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: This print designed by Shunsen's pupil Mori Shunchô
(森春鳥) with assistance by Shunsen.  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.
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI ( 尾上菊五郎) as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)

Play: Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/23
Print Date: 05/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although the actor is not identified on the print, there are photos from the production the month
before at the Ichimura-za that make it likely that it depicts Kikugorô VI.
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)  as Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠彌)

Play: Keian Taiheiki (慶安太平記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/23
Print Date: 05/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 2, No. 5 (May 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although the actor is not identified on the print, photos of Sadanji II
in this role in the magazine from a production the month before make it
likely that it is Sadanji II.
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV, Scene I of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/23
Print Date: 06/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although the actor is not identified on the print, a photo of Fukusuke IV in this role in the
magazine from a production the month before make it likely that it is Fukusuke IV.
 
 

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)

Play: Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/23
Print Date: 06/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎) as Ama Isona (海女磯菜)

Play: Shiokumi (汐汲み) [Shichimai Tsuzuki Hana no Sugatae (七枚続花の姿繪)]
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1923
Print Date: 08/01/25
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This magazine also includes a reproduction of a ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Toyokuni III (歌川豊国),
which is outside the scope of this site.
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Osada no Kata (お貞の方)

Play: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/23
Print Date: 07/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
 Kitamura Rokurô I (喜多村緑郎) as Wet Nurse Shigenoi (乳人重の井),
as portrayed by actress Bando Kaeda (坂東カ枝)

Play: Kyôenroku (俠艷録)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/22/23
Print Date: 08/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 2, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The play within the play is some version or excerpt of Koi Nyôbô
Somewake Tazuna (戀女房染分手綱).
 
 
 
 

               
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Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 07/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 2, No. 7 (July 1, 1923)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The actor and the role are not identified, and the print fails to provide sufficient clues to this
author as to their identies.  It is possible that depicts Onoe Baikô VI's co-star in Kaga Sôdô
(加賀騒動), which  was Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôta Ôi (太田大炊).
 
 

               
Morita Kan'ya XIII (森田勘弥; 守田勘弥) as Hagiwara Shinzaburô (萩原新三郎)

Play: Botan Dôrô (牡丹燈籠)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/23
Print Date: 08/01/23
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 2, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1923)
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as
Komatsuya Sôshichi (小松屋宗七)

Play: Kezori (毛剃), common name for
Koi Minato Hakata no Hitofushi
(恋湊博多諷; 恋港博多諷)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 03-04/1923
Print Date: 1927
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#25)
*Personal Collection

Note: I have not located a performance by Fukusuke IV in
this role in Tokyo.