NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1948

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play:  Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/48
Print Date: 1949
Series: Kikugorô Buyo Sugata [Kikugorô’s Dance Appearances]
(菊五郎舞踊姿)
Personal Collection

Note:  Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Hanako in Tokyo at
the Shintomi-za in September 1912.  He reprised the role in Tokyo
on at least 17 subsequent occasions.  Although his  appearance at the
Tokyo Gekijô in January 1948 was his last appearance in this role in
Tokyo, it is possible that this print depicts Kikugorô VI in one of
these other productions.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Fukusuke VII (中村福助) as
Osome (お染)

Play: Osome (お染)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/1948
Print Date: 01/1952
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play:  Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/48
Print Date: 1949
Series: Kikugorô Buyo Sugata [Kikugorô’s Dance Appearances]
(菊五郎舞踊姿)
Personal Collection

Note:  Kikugorô VI first performed the role of Fuji Musueme in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in March 1937. and subsequently reprised
the role at the Kabuki-za in May 1939, January 1942, January 1943,
and October 1943,  and at the Tokyo Gekijô in February 1947. 
He gave his final performance in the role at the Kabuki-za in
Osaka in March 1949.  It is possible that this print depicts
Kikugorô VI in one of these other productions.