SAWAMURA SÔJÛRÔ VIII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
01/08/1908 - 12/25/1975

aka SAWAMURA TOSSHÔ IV (沢村 訥升; 澤村訥舛)

Ichikawa Danzô VIII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵) as
Naosuke (直助)

Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
Osode  (お袖) (seen from behind only)
           
Play: Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan (東海道四谷怪談)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1948
Print Date: 07/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
Nyôbô (女房) the wife] Okichi (お 吉)

Play: [Toshima Oil Shop] Toshima ya Abura-ten (豊嶋屋油店),
Act III of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/1949
Print Date: 02/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of MyJapaneseHanga.com'

Note: This print was not found in my copy of Abura no
Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊) reproduced below.  
It is not known at this time if my set is incomplete or if this
particular print was separately issued by Kihei. 
 
 
 

 
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as Okichi (お吉)
           
            Play: Tokuan Zutsumi (徳庵堤), Act I of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

 
            Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
            Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
,
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
            wife Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III, Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichinojô  I (中村吉之丞) as
Kawachiya Tokubê (河内屋徳兵衛)

Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
Okichi (お吉)
 
Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
Act III,  Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/1949
Print Date: 02/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
Personal Collection

 

           
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

            Nakamura Matagorô  II (中村又五郎) as
            Teshimaya Shichizaemon (豊島屋七左衛門)
       
            Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
             Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of
            Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Moshio IV  (中村もしほ) as
            Kawachiya Yohê (河内屋与兵衛)

           Sawamura Tosshô IV (沢村訥升; 澤村訥舛) as
           Okichi (お吉)

            Play: Teshimaya Aburamise (豊嶋屋油店),
            Act III , Scene 1 of Abura no Jigyoku (油地獄)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/03/1949
            Print Date: 02/1949?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Abura no Jigyoku Hanga-satsu (油地獄』板画冊)
            Personal Collection

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
 
 Sawamura Tosshô IV  (沢村訥升;澤村訥舛) as
Kita-no-Mandokoro (北政所)
 
Play: Nijō-jō no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: 05/1950
Print Date: 05/03/50
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Woodblock printed program cover
Personal Collection

Note: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) celebrated his
shumei at the Misono-za in Nagoya  with a troupe led by
his brother Nakamura Kichiemon I.  Other plays on the bill
included Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明鳥夢泡雪),
Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記), Narukami (鳴神), 
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子), and Banzuiin Chobê ((幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛).
 
 
 
  

                 
[Hell Screen] Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
 
Play: Jigoku Hen (地獄変)
Performance Place: Kabukii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/05/53
Print Date: 12/1953?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cast of this production included Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII
(中村勘三郎) as Eshi Yoshihide (絵師良秀), Matsumoto Kōshirō VIII
(松本幸四郎) as Horikawa Daijin (堀河大臣), Nakamura Utaemon VI
(中村歌右衛門)  as  Yoshihide Musume Ro 艸 (良秀娘露艸) and as
Tsuyukusa (露草), Nakamura Shikaku II (中村 芝鶴) as ? (    ), Nakamura
Matagorō II (中村又五郎) as Deshi Hanada Waka, Morita Kan'ya XIV
(守田 勘弥) as Deshi Fudeo (弟子筆雄), and Sawamura Sōjūrō VIII
(沢村宗十郎) as Midai Aoi no Kata (御台葵の方).