NATORI SHUNSEN (名取春仙) 

 1959

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Gorô Tokimune (五郎時致)
 
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成)

Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: New Year 1959
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: This depicts a Soga brothers play such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面).  However, I have
not found an instance where all three actors
appeared in Tokyo in these specific roles at the
same time.  A similar but more detailed version
of this design is shown in the 2002 and 1991
Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a painting).
 
 

                   
Matsumoto Kôshirô VIII (松本幸四郎) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play:  Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/59
Print Date: 03/1959 or later
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VIII also performed this role at the
Minami-za in Tokyo in February 1950.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.  A similar but more detailed
version of this design is shown in the 2002 and
1991 Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a painting).

                   
Yamamoto Fujiko (山本富士子) as
? (情谷叶家) Koume (小梅)

Film:  Jôen (情炎)
Released: 03/17/59
Print Date: 03/1959 or later
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note:  A similar but more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs (and appears to be a painting).

                   
Jitsukawa Enjirô II (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play:  Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路花聟) between Acts IV and
V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1959
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: I have not found an instance where both
actors appeared together in Tokyo in these roles.
They did perform the Michiyuki Tabiji no
Hanamuko (道行旅路の花聟) scene of Kanadehon
Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
together at the  Osaka Kabuki-za in October 1955
and at the Minami-za in Kyoto in December 1955.
A similar but more detailed version of this design
is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs
(and appears to be a painting).
 
  

                   
Kataoka Nizaemon XIII (片岡仁左衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)
 
Play:  Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/59
Print Date: 1959
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but reversed and more detailed
version of this design is shown in the 2002 and
1991 Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a
painting).
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodo no Kata (淀方; 淀の方)
 
Play:  Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu
(沓手鳥孤城落月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/59
Print Date: 1959
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but  more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs (and appears to be a painting).