TSUKIGATA HANPEITA
(月形半平太)

Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形 半平太)
 
Play: Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形半平太)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/21/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

Note: Shôjirô subsequently performed
the role in Tokyo at the at the Asakusa
Shochiku-za in November 1922, at the
Shinbashi Enbujô in July 1924, at the
Asakusa Shochiku-za in June 1925, at
the Teikoku Gekijô in August 1926, and
at the Ichimura-za in March 1928.
 
 
 
 

               
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形 半平太)

Play:  Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形半平太)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/25
Print Date: 06/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôjirô also portrayed Tsukigata Hanpeita in
productions at the Shinbashi Enbujô in July 1924, at the
Teikoku Gekijô in August 1926, and at the Ichimura-za in March
1928, as well as in a film version released in 1925.    I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects one of those
performances.
 
 
  
 

                 
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形 半平太)

Play:  Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形半平太)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/25
Print Date: 06/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôjirô also portrayed Tsukigata Hanpeita in
productions at the Shinbashi Enbujô in July 1924, at the
Teikoku Gekijô in August 1926, and at the Ichimura-za in March
1928, as well as in a film version released in 1925.    I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects one of those
performances.
 

Plays: Ushi to Tatakau Otoko (牛と闘ふ男);  Tsukigata Hanpeita (月形半平太); Toki no Ujigami (時の氏神)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/13/26
Print Date: 08/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum