NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1935

                   
Hayashi Chôjirô (林 長二郎)
[aka Hasegawa Kazuo (長谷川 一夫)] as Yukinojô (雪之丞)

Film:  Yukinojô Henge (雪之丞変化)
Released: 06/27/35
Print Date: 1935
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Chôjirô also starred in the 1963 remake of this film.  A damaged copy
of this print is in the Karl Collection.
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Kiichi Hôgen (鬼一法眼)

Play:  Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/35
Print Date: c. 1936
Personal Collection

Note:  This was Chûsha VII's last stage appearance.  He
died nine months later on July 12, 1936, and this print
might have been commissioned as a memorial print.
 
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play:  Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/35
Print Date: 1937
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 

                   
Folder Cover for Yodogmi print

Print Date: 1937
Personal Collection

                   
Folder Colophon for Yodogimi print

Print Date: 1937
Personal Collection