UNKNOWN ARTISTS

Miscellaneous Other Undated Prints

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (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 fan
 
Note: Kôshirô VII first performed 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.
 
 
 

[Burlesque]
 
Print Date: ?
Medium: Lithograph and etching
Personal Collection (#4/50)

Note:  The artist name looks something like "Utogi."
 
 
 
 
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

? as Yakko (奴)

Play: Tomo Yakko (供奴)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection 

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa
(鎌倉権五郎景政)]

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
ex libris print
Personal Collection

Charlie Chaplin as
The Little Tramp

Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
ex libris print
Personal Collection

[Hibiya Kôen [Open Air] Concert Hall] Hibiya Kôen Ongaku-dô (日比谷 公園 音樂堂)

Print Date: ?
Series: [Tokyo Famous Sights] Tôkyô Meishô (東京名勝)
Image courtesy of the University of Oregon (Lavenberg Collection)
 
 
 
 
 

[Noh Play Scene]

Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery
 
 
 
 
 

[Lion Dance]

Print Date: ?
Image courtesy of the Ronin Gallery

? as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection

? as Princess Yaegeki (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (不如帰)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection

[Kumadori (隈取)]

Print Date: ?
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print shows the kumadori makeup for, inter
alia, Asahina (朝比奈の隈),  Tsuchigumo (土蜘),
 Kugeaku Tokihei (公家悪時平),  Kitsune Tadanobu
(狐忠信),  Sukeroku (助六),  Shakkyô (石橋),  Umeômaru
(梅王丸), Matsuômaru (松王丸), Sakuramaru (桜丸), and
Gedatsu (解脱).
 
 
 
 
 

Shôjô (猩々)

Play: Shôjô (猩々)
Print Date: 1935
Published in Japanese Noh Plays, Tourist Library #2 (1935)
Personal Collection
 
Note:  Stylistically, this print is similar to the work of
Matsuno Sôfû (松野奏風).
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection
  
 
 
 

               
                ? as Kajiwara Heizo Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)

                Play: Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原}
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date:
                Print Date: ?
                Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

[Noh Actor Puppets]

Play: ?
Print Date: ?
Image Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

               
                Nakamura Utaemon V as
                Princess Takiyasha-hime (瀧夜叉姫)

                Play: ?
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date:
                Print Date: ?
                Image Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
                Note: I can find no record of Utaemon V performing
                this role in Tokyo in a play such as "Masakado" (息子)
                or "Kin no Zai Sarushima Dairi" (金幣猿島郡).
 
 
 
 

[Beauty Holding Flute]
 
Print Date: ?
Medium: Lithograph
Image Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
  
 
 
 

           
            Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
            Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date:
            Print Date: ?
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

[Girl Dancing to a Gramophone]
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Image Courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

                                 
                [Playing Your Favorite Music]
                Kimi no Suki na Kyoku wo (君の好きな曲を)

                Print Date: ? (ed. 100)
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Etching and Aquatint
                Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as 
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
 
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is an extremely large
senshafuda, over 30 inches long.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)                  

Play:  Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

    
Reverse side of fan, perhaps by a different artist.
 
Personal Collection


 
 
 
 

                
?
 
Play:  ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ex libris
Personal Collection