Unknown Artists - Undated Postcards #1

UNKNOWN ARTISTS

Undated Postcards #1

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Play: Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I portrayed Ishikawa
Goemon in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za
in January 1916 and at the Shintomi-za in
March 1923.

        Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若)
        as Yokozô (横蔵)

        Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: Enjaku II portrayed Yokozô at the
        Kabuki-za in January 1916, and June 1937.

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

Play: Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura
(博多小女郎浪枕)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II performed this role in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in October 1914,
at the Meiji-za in November 1920, and at
the Kabuki-za in December 1928.

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role
opposite Kichiemon at the Ichimura-za
in April 1914, at the Hongô-za in April
1926, and at the Kabuki-za in March
1934.

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I performed this role
opposite performed this role Kikugorô VI
in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in April 1914,
at the Hongô-za in April 1926, and at the
Kabuki-za in March 1934.

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II performed this role in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in November 1918 and in
April 1921, at the Hongô-za in December
1924, and at the Meij-za in May 1931.

? as Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI ( 尾上菊五郎) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kikugorô VI performed this role in
Tokyo nine times between August 1916
and October 1948.

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in
Tokyo twelve times between November
1904 and October 1942.

? as Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Play: Kotobuki Soga Taimen (寿曽我対面)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

? as Manno (萬野; 万野)

Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Matsumoto Kôshirô (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role in
Tokyo twenty-three times between April
1914 and June 1946. It could even depict
Kôshirô VIII, who performed the role in
Tokyo twenty-three times between
September 1949 and September 1975.

? as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

        Nakamura Kaisha (中村魁車) as '
        Yodogimi (淀君)

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: The seller attributed this print to
        Natori Shunsen, but seal does not look
        like any known Shunsen seal.

        Nakamura Utaemon V
         (中村歌右衛門) as
        Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

        Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: The seller attributed this print to
        Natori Shunsen. Utaemon V
        performed this role in Tokyo at at the
        Hongô-za in November 1914, at the
        Kabuki-za in January 1916, at the
        Teikoku Gekijô in November 1916, at
        the Shintomi-za in December 1919, and
        at the Kabuki-za in May 1925.

Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

Play: Meikô Kakimon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Nizaemon XI performed this role at
the Meiji-za in June 1917; at Teikoku
Gekijô in November 1919; at the
Ichimura-za in October 1921, and at
the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1925.

Ichikawa Udanji II as
Jiraiya (児雷也)

Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: I cannot locate a performance of
Jiraiya starring Udanji II.

Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七)

Play: Some Oshichi-Kichisamono
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard