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.

                   
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.