UNKNOWN ARTISTS

1918

                 
 
Plays: Kokoro no Iroage (心の色揚); Tsumuji Magari (つむじまがり); Shika Inami (四海波);
Hyakkô no Motoi (百行の基); On'na Ja no Me (女蛇の目)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa
 
 

Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as ?
 
Plays: Otemoto Haiken (御手元拝見); Daiyamondo (ダイヤモンド); Hitomoshi Goro (灯ともし頃);
Kankô Bai (寒紅梅); Inochi no Yasu Uri (命の安賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

                 
 
Plays: Otemoto Haiken (御手元拝見); Daiyamondo (ダイヤモンド); Hitomoshi Goro (灯ともし頃);
Kankô Bai (寒紅梅); Inochi no Yasu Uri (命の安賣)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/19/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Soganoya Goro Ippa.

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Kumagai Jirô
Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1918
Print Date: 04/1918
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
 
Note: Most of the prints in this series
were issued in 1916, which suggests
that the given date and location of the
performance is incorrect.  However,
I can find no indication that Sadanji II
performed this role in Taisho era prior
to 1918.      
 
 
 

                 
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?

Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as ?
 
Plays: Hanayomego (花嫁御); Kikîppatsu (危機一髪); Yari (槍); Shinjô (眞情); Teiki no Tsuma (定期の妻)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/30/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

                 
 
Plays: Ten'ichibô Ôoka Seidan (天一坊大岡政談); Nani Ôshima Homare no Tsuyoyumi
(名大島功譽強弓); Shôchikubai Yuki no Akebono (松竹梅雪曙)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/03/18
Print Date: 12/1918?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum