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Nakamura
Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as ?
Play: ?
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Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
s
Shirabyôshi (白拍子)
[Hanako
(白拍子)]
Play:
Kyōganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺)
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Note:
Kikugorô VI first performed
the
role of Hanako in Tokyo at the
Shintomi-za in September 1912.
His final
performance in Tokyo was
at the Tokyo
Gekijô in January 1948.
Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Iwafuji
(岩藤; 岩ふじ)
Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no
Nishikie
(鏡山旧錦繪)
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Note: Baikô VI
performed this
role in
Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in
April 1914 and at the
Ichimura-za in February 1918.
Kataoka Gadô IV (片岡我童)
as Nagato-no-Kami (長門守)
Play: Ume Kyôdai Naniwa
Senki (梅✪✪浪花扇記)
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Kataoka Nizaemon
XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Yuranosuke
(由良之助)
Play:
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵;
假名手本忠臣蔵)
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Note: Nizaemon
XI performed
this role in Tokyo at
the Kabuki-
za in
November 1915,
November 1918, and
April
1921.
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜;
助六由縁江戸櫻)
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Note: Uzaemon XV performed
this role in Tokyo seven times
between June 1906 and April
1941.
Nakamura Utaemon
V
(中村歌右衛門) as
Sadato (貞任)
Play: Òshù
Adachi-ga-Hara
(奥州安達原)
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Note: Utaemon V
performed
this role in
Tokyo at Kabuki-
za in May 1918.
Ôtani Tomoemon VI
(大谷友右衛門) as
Tonbê (頓兵衛)
Play:
Shinrei Yaguchi no
Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
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Note: Tomoemon
VI performed
this role in
Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in March
1923.
Nakamura
Jakuemon III
(中村雀右衛門
as Okaru (お軽)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
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Nakamura
Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門)
as
Kumagai
Naozane
(熊谷直実)
Play:
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
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Note:
Kichiemon I first per-
formed
this role in Tokyo as the
Asakusa-za in February 1902.
His
final performance in Tokyo
was at
the Tokyo Gekijô in June
1948.
Morita
Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥;
守田勘彌) as
Shirozaki
Uri [Shinbei]
(白酒売;
白酒うり)
Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo
Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜)
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Note:
Kan'ya XIII performed
this role
in Tokyo at the
Ichimura-za in April 1915 and
in April
1918, and at the Tokyo
Gekijô in
May 1930.
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵)
as Kichisa (吉三)
Play: Oshichi Kichisa
(お七吉三)
Performance Place: Hōgaku- za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
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Note: Omezô IV also performed
the role of Obô Kichisa in Sannin
Kichisa (三人吉三) at the
Mitsukoshi Gekijô in February
1948.
? as Okumi (おくみ)
Play: ?
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Jitsukawa Enjaku II
(実川延若; 實川延若) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)
Play: Meiboku Sendai
Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
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Nakamura Jakuemon III
(中村雀右衛門 as ?
Play: ?
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Bandô Shûchô
III (坂東秀調) as
Nureginu (濡衣)
Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝)
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Note:
Shûchô III performed this
role in
Tokyo at the Hongô-za in
November
1913 and at the
Teikoku
Gekijô in December
1922.
Nakamura
Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Chôbei (長兵衛)
Play: Banzui Chôbei
(幡随長兵衛)
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Note:
Kichiemon I first
performed
this role at the
Ichimura-za in May 1909.
His final
performance in
Tokyo was
at the Kabuki-
za in
September 1953.
Ichikawa
Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Chûya
(忠弥)
Play:
Marubashi Chûya
(丸橋忠弥;
丸橋忠彌)
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Note: Sandanji II first
performed this role at the
Meiji-za
in September 1906.
His final
performance in
Tokyo was
at the Tokyo Gekijô
in
October 1938.
Kataoka
Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon
(柿右衛門)
Play: Meikô Kakiemon
(名工柿右衛門)
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Note:
Nizaemon XI performed
this role
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in
November 1912, at the
Meiji-za
in January 1917, at the
Teikoku
Gekijô in November
1919, at
the Ichimura-za in
October
1922, at the Teikoku
Gekijô in
June 1925, and at
the
Meji-za in October 1929.
Ichikawa Sumizô VI
(市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Ushiwaka (牛若)
Play: Hashi Benki (橋弁慶)
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Note: Sumizô VI performed
this role in Tokyo at the Meiji-
za in May 1921 and in March
1928, and at the Tokyo Gekijô
in June 1935 and May 1940.
? as
Goemon (五右ェ門)
Play:
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri
(樓門五山桐;
楼門五山桐)
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Arashi Kichisaburô VI (嵐吉三郎)
as 長野新?
Play: ?
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Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵)
as Ôkyō (大蔵卿)
Play: Ichijô Ôkura
Monogatari
(一條大蔵譚), Act IV, Scene 3 of
Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no
Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
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Note: Tokizô III performed
this
role in Tokyo at the
Ichimura
za in December 1918 and at
the Shinbashi Enbujô in June
1958.
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
?
Play: ?
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Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Ôguchiya
Gyôu (暁雨)
Play: Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa
(侠客春雨傘)
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Note:
Sôjûrô VII performed
this role
in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijô in
February 1918.
Ichimura
Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門)
as
Kirare
Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)
Play:
Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
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Note:
Uzaemon XV first per-
formed
this role in Tokyo at the
Ichimura-za in July 1906. His
final
performance in Tokyo
was at
the Kabuki-za in April
1943.
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Tatsugorō (辰五郎)
Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô
no Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
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Note: Kikugorô VI first per-
formed this role in Tokyo at
the Ichimura-za in January
1909. His final performance
in Tokyo was at the Tokyo
Gekijô in January 1948.
Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as Wankyû (椀久)
Play: Wankyû Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山)
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Note: Ganjirô I performed this
role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
za in February 1913 and
November 1920, and at the
Kabuki-za in May 1928.
Sawamura
Chôzaburô VII
(沢村長三郎; 澤村長三郎) as ?
Play:
?
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Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Sadakurô (定九郎)
Play: Kanadehon
Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
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Note: Sadanji II performed this
role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in
November 1918 and
April 1921,
at the Hongo-za in
December 1924,
and at the Meiji-za in May
1931.
Nakamura Ganjirô I
(中村鴈治郎) as ?
Play: ?
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Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助)
as Nozarashi
Kohyôe
(野晒小兵衛)
Play:
Ingamonoshi
(劇因果物師)
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Note: MMatsusuke IV
performed
this role at the Teikoku
Gekijô in
August 1921. Matsusuke
IV
also performed this role at
the
Ichimura-za in November 1915
in a version called Imashi
Megusa Susukino (誡種芒野晒).
? Bandô Jusaburô III
(坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎) as
Saigô
(西郷)
Play: Saigô to Buta-hime
(西郷と豚姫)
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Note:
Jusaburô III performed
this role
at the Naniwa in
Osaka in
April 1924. [A
different
source gives this
performance date as April
1936.]
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)
Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
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Note: Matsusuke IV first
performed this role in Yowa
Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
September 1892. His last
Tokyo appearance in this role
was in a June 1927 production
of Otomi to Yosaburô
(お富と与三郎) at the Teikoku
Gekijô.
Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as
Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
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Note: Kôshirô VII performed this
role in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
May 1921,
at the Teikoku Gekijô
in
January 1929, and at the
Kabuki-za
in January 1934 and
January
1937.
Jitsukawa Enjaku II
(実川延若; 實川延若) as
Heiemon (平右ェ門)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
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Note: Enjaku II performed this
role at the Hongô-za in
December 1924, at the Tokyo
Gekijô in October 1934, and
at the Kabuki-za in March 1936.
Onoe
Usaburô II (尾上卯三郎) as
Ushi Gorô (丑五郎)
Play:
Bushi to Mago (武士と馬子)
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Note: Usaburô
II performed this
role in Tokyo
at the Tokyo Gekijô
in
June 1913 and at the Asakusa
Shôchiku-za in
February 1925.
Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)
Play: ?
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Note: Utaemon V
performed this
role in Tokyo at least ten
times
between 1913 and 1939
. He
also played the character in
a
play called Kiri Hitoha (
桐一葉)
at the Kabuki-za in October
1919
and at the Hongo-za in
October
1924, in a play called
Ôsakajô
(大阪城) at the Kabuki-za in
January 1921, in a play
called
Seki-ga-Hara at the
Kabuki-za
in April 1925, and in a play
called Yodogimi Odawarajin
(淀君小田原陣) at the Kabuki-za
in April 1926.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Chôbei (長兵衛)
Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori
(御存鈴ヶ森 )
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Note: Kôshirô VII performed
this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijo in June 1916, and at the
Kabuki-za in May 1920 and
May 1930, and February 1939.
Ichikawa Shôchô II
(市川松蔦)
as Koman (小まん)
Play: ?
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Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)
as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide
(馬盥の光秀), Act II of Toki-ha
Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki
Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
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Note: Chûsha VII performed
this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
za in October 1918 and at the
Meiji-za in October 1921.
Ichikawa
Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Musashibô
Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
Play:
Ataka no Seki (安宅関)
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Note: Chûsha VII
performed
this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
Gekijo in
December 1919, at
the
Shintomi-za in April 1921, at
the
Asakusa Shôchiku- za in
May 1924,
and the Meiji-za in
February
1929.
Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀)
as Rikiya (力弥)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
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Ichikawa Ennosuke II
(市川猿之助) as Benkei (弁慶)
Play: Hashi Benkei
(橋辨慶; 橋弁慶)
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Note: Ennosuke II first per-
formed this role in Tokyo at
the Meiji-za in May 1921.
His last Tokyo appearance in
this role was at the Shinbashi
Enbujô in March 1952.
Nakamura Kaisha
I (中村魁車)
as Otani (お谷)
Play:
Igagoe Dôchū Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
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Note: Kaishi I
performed this
' role at the Naniwa in
Osaka in
October 1917.
Nakamura Fukusuke
(中村福助) as Oshichi (お七)
Play: Some
Oschichi-Kichasamono
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Note:
Fukusuke V performed this
role in
Kichisama Mairu Yukari
no Otozure
(吉様参由縁音信) at
the
Shintomi-za in January
1923, and
Fukusuke VI performed
this role
in the same play at the
Meiji-za in
June 1936. Fukusuke
V also
performed this role in
Oshichi
Kichisa (お七吉三) at the
Hongô-za in
May 1924, in
Shochikubai
Yushima no
Kagegaku
(松竹梅湯島掛額)) at the
Hongô-za in
February 1926, and in
Shochikubai
Yuki no Akebono
(松竹梅雪曙) at
the Shintomi-za in
December
1918. This print
could
depict any one of those
performances.
Ichikawa Sanshô V
(市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清)
Play: Gedatsu (解脱)
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Note: Sanshô V performed
this role at the Kabuki-za in
November 1932 and in
October 1953.
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎)
as Musashibô Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
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Note: Kôshirô VII first per-
formed this role in Tokyo at
the Teikoku Gekijô in April
1914. His final appearance
in Tokyo in this role was at
the Tokyo Gekijô in June 1946.
Nakamura
Fukusuke
(中村福助) as Masaoka (政岡)
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
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Note
Fukusuke * performed
this role
at the Meiji-za in
October
1931.
Bandô
Mitsugorô VII
(坂東三津五郎)
as
Kisen (喜撰)
Dance:
Rokkasen Sugata no Irodori
(六歌仙容彩)
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Note:
Mitsugorô VII first performed
this role
in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
za in
July 1907. His final
appearance in Tokyo in this role
was at
the Kabuki-za in February
1957.