NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1925

                   
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play:  Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森), Act III of
Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#10)
Personal Collection

Note: Sumizô VI first played Gonpachi in this play in Tokyo
at the Engi-za in July 1910.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also played this role at the Shintomi-za in October 1914.

                   
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Takechi Mitsuhide
(武智光秀) disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十)

Play:  Ehon Taikôki (絵本大功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#17)
Personal Collection

Note: Chûsha VII first played Mitsuhide in this play in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in May 1919.  Prior to his 1925 perform-
ance, he also played this role at the Meiji-za in September
1922, and at the Hongô-za in April 1924.  It is possible that
Shunsen based this print on one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 

                   
Bandô Shuchô III (坂東秀調) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
covering Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2 of
Kumo ni Magô Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#3)
*Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV first played Naojirô in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1905.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also performed this role at the Kabuki-za in April 1910, at
the Kabuki-za in November 1916, and at the Shintomi-za in
December 1919.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Uzaemon XV's 1916 or 1919 performances.
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)

Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura (敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/25
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#2)
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV first played the role of Motoemon in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in July 1914.  Prior to his 1925
performance, he also performed this role at the Ichimura-za
in October 1919.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Kikugorô VI's 1914 or 1919 performances.

                   
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Sayuri (小百合)

Play:  Modoribashi (戻橋)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
Print Date: 1925
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#4)
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI first played the role of Sayuri in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-za in October 1904.  Depending on the precise
publication date of this print, it is possible that Shunsen
modeled this print after one of Baikô VI's performances
at the Teikoku Gekijô in March 1913, April 1918, or
April 1922.
 
 
 

                   
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play:  Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/25
Print Date: 1926
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#14)
*Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II  first played the role of Danshichi Kurôbê in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1917.