UNKNOWN ARTISTS

 1894

               
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五耶) as
Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋時次郎)
  
Play: Akegarasu (明烏)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1894
Print Date: 01/01/17
Artist: ?
Medium: Offset Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 11, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1917)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Kikugorô V also performed this role at the Naka-za in Tokyo in
September 1872.  This is probably a lithographic reproduction of a
woodblock print.
 
 

Sano Kujirô (佐野庫次郎) as ?
 
Yasuda Chûichirô (保田注一郎) as
[Official Qi Yû] Chori Qi Yû (丁吏其羽)
 
Terashima Kurajirô
(寺島倉二郎; 寺嶋倉次郎) as
*** (*吏*同臭)
 
Ishida Nobuo (石田信夫) as
Haruta Shige (春田しげ) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Play: [Sino-Japanese War]
Nisshin Sensô (日清戦争)
Performance Place: Asakusa-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/31/94
Print Date: 09/01/1894
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Shibata Zentarô (柴田善太郎)  as
[Adjutant Hong Bingshu]
Fukkan Hong Bingshu (副官洪炳集)
 
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
Shinbun Kisha Hirada Tetsuya
(帝国新聞記者 比良田鉄哉)

Kawamura Akira (河村昶) as
[Li's Attendant  Jiaoxian]
Ri-shi no samurai Jiaoxian
(李氏の侍矯仙)
 
Takada Minoru  (高田実) as 
[General Li Hongzhang]
Shôgun Li Hongzhang (将軍李鴻章)

Fukazawa Kôzô (深澤恒造; 深沢恒造) as
[Harsh Jailer Yuen]
Gokuri Yuen Kokuretsu (獄吏袁酷烈) 
 
Nakano Nobuchika (中野信近) as
[Adjutant Zhao Wu]
Fukkan Zhao Wu (副官趙武慣)
 
Harasawa Shinzô (原沢新三) as
[Official Nanji*] Chori. Nanji* (丁吏.汝*)
 
Yano Kanjirô (矢野勘二郎) as
[Official Li Da] Chori Li Da (丁吏李達)
 

                
Fujisawa Asajirô (藤澤浅次郎) as
[Lieutenant Kojima's Wife Sadako]  Kojima Chûi Fujin Sadako (小島中尉夫人貞子)
 
? as ?
 
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
[Battlefield Inspection Actor (Lt. Kojima)] Senchi Shisatsu Haiyû (戦地視察俳優)
 
Play: [Battlefield Diary]
Senchi Kenbun Nikki (戦地見聞日記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/03/1894
Print Date: 12/06/1894
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum