TSUYA MONOGATARI
(通夜物語; つや物語)

                   
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Tamagawa Kiyoshi (玉川清)

Play:  Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Print Date: [~1929-1934]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note: Ii Yôhô first performed the role of Kiyoshi (with
Kawai Takeo) in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in January 1907.
 
 
 

                   
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Chôzan (丁山)

Play:  Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Print Date: [~1929-1934]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)

Note:  Although listed in a Watanabe sales catalog, it is possible
that this print was never editioned.  Kawai Takeo first performed
the role of Chôzan (with Ii Yôhô) in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in
January 1907.  He reprised the role at the Meiji-za in November
1915, at the  Kabuki-za in March 1918, and at the Minamiza
(Abuza Tokyo) in March 1924.  It is possible that Shunsen based
this print on one of these later performances.

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

            
            Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Tamagawa Kiyoshi (玉川清)  
           
            Play: Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
            Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 01/02/12
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Chôzan (丁山)
           
Play: Tsuya Monogatari (通夜物語; つや物語)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/12
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)