Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Yaegiri (八重桐)

Play: Komochi Yamanba
(嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Tokizô III also performed this role at
the Aomori Kabukiza in August 1921
and at the Shôchiku Gekijô in May
1926.  It is possible that this print
reflects one of those performances.
 
 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo       
Performance Date: 04/1926
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine  (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Kame (亀)

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as Tsuru (鶴)

Play: Tsuru Kame (鶴亀)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1929
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#36)
Personal Collection

Note: Although the print bears a 1928 date, it was not
actually published until 1929.  Nonetheless, this suggests that
the performance depicted transpired on or before 1928.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Taruya Osen (樽屋おせん)

Play:  Taruya Osen (樽屋おせん)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/49
Print Date: 1953?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin Yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Danshichi Shima no Okaji (團七縞お梶)
           
Play: Natsu Sugata Onna Danshichi (夏姿女團七)
 Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1949
Print Date: 07/1949?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Medium: Colored woodblock print, likely with
hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Tokizô III would reprise this role at the Toyoko Hall
in June 1958.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that later performance.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)  as
Oginoya Yaegiri-go ni Yamanba (萩の家八重桐後に山姥)

Play: Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 10/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/54
Print Date: 11/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#7)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Tokizô III first played the role of Shizuka Gozen in
this play in Tokyo at the Hongô-za in January 1928. 
Although Utaemon V's last Tokyo appearance in this
role before the publication date of the print was in
April 1954, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Tokizô III's prior performances.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Tomoe Gozen (巴御前)

Play: Onna Shibaraku (女暫) 
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/57
Print Date: 1959
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: This was probably conceived as a memorial
print, as Tokizô III died in 1959.  A similar but
more detailed version of this design is shown in
the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs (and appears
to be a painting, not hanga-genga). 
 

Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)
as Ôkyō (大蔵卿)

Play: Ichijô Ôkura Monogatari
(一條大蔵譚), Act IV, Scene 3 of
Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
 
Note: Tokizô III performed this
role in Tokyo at the Ichimura
za in December 1918 and at
the Shinbashi Enbujô in June
1958.