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)
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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.
 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郞) as Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)

Play: Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 01/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 1) (三十六家選 (その一))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: There was a production of Soga Ju-ban ki (曽我十番斬) at the Kanda
theater in Tokyo in November 1924 and of Kotobuki Soga no Taimen
(寿曽我対面) at the Suhiro-za in Nagoya in December 1924.   While the casts
of those productions are not known to this author, it is possible that this print
reflects one of those performances.
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 02/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1925)
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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: 06/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 6 (June 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This magazine also includes a reproduction of a ukiyo-e print by Katsukawa Shun'ei (勝川春英),
which is outside the scope of this site.
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戶助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由緣江戶櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: 03/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 3) (三十六家選 (その三))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
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
 
 
 

                   
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: 10/1994 (ed. 200)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)

Note: This is a later printing in a smaller size made
under the auspices of the Kushigatachô Chamber
of Commerce and Industry.
 
 
  

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Aishô Ohide no Kata (愛妾お秀の方)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1925)
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? as Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji  (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei  (演藝), Vol. 1, No. 1 (Apr. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上] 菊五郎) as ? 

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 1) (三十六家選 (その一))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei  (演藝), Vol. 1, No. 1 (Apr. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: One of the cartouches reads "Suzakuno no Hana (朱雀野野の花)."
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 05/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 5) (三十六家選 (その五))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 5 (May 1, 1925)
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.
 
 
 

                   
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: 04/2003 (ed. 100)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note: This is a later printing in what is believed
to be a smaller size made under the auspices of
the Seisaku Shunsen Gahaku Ki Hanga Kankô-
kai.  The actual size of the print has not yet been
confirmed but, regardless of the size of the print,
it can be distinguished from the original printing by
the presence of the red seals on the back of the
print.
 
 
  

                   
Back of 2003 version
 
 
  

                   
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.
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as Sanemori Saitô (齋藤實盛)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 5 (May 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This magazine also includes a reproduction of a ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Toyokuni I (歌川豊国),
which is outside the scope of this site.

                   
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.
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Ganjirō I (中村鴈治郎) as Soga no Juro Sukenari (曾我十郎祐成)

Play: Soga no Taimen (曾我対面)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 6) (三十六家選 (其六))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 6 (June 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左團次) as Oshô Kichisa (和尙吉三)

Play: San'nin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami (三人吉三巴白浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/25
Print Date: 07/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 7) (三十六家選 (その七))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as Tokubê's wife Otatsu (徳兵衛女房お辰)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 07/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖), Vol. 4, No. 7 (July 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.

                   
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.
 
 
 

               
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)

Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Series: Thirty-Six Selected Actors (No. 8) (三十六家選 (その八))
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 8 (Aug. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Gadô IV portrayed Fukuoka Mitsugi at the Shintomi-za in June 1921.  It
is possible that this print reflects a later regional performance.
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Asano Naganori (淺野内匠頭)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/01/25
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Shashinchô (演藝寫真帖; 演芸写真帖),
Vol. 4, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1925)
Personal Collection