JANUARY 1917




Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組の辰五郎)

Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no
Torikumi (神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Satô Masakiyo (佐藤正清)

Play:  Hachijin Shugo no Honjô
(八陣守護城)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Henmi Tetsushinsai 
(逸見鉄心斎; 逸見鐵心齋)

Play:  Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa
(侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/07/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Henmi Tetsushinsai (逸見鐵心齋)

Play: Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/07/17
Print Date: 1919
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
 
 
 
 

               


Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨)

Play:  Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa
(侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/07/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as
Katsuragi Tayû (葛城太夫)

Play:  Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa
(侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/07/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
the Mute Jirosuke (唖次郎助)

Play: Kokkei Sannin Katawa (滑稽三人片輪)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Although a bromide exists from the Ichimura-za production which
labels Mitsugorô VII as the mute, in reality he played a character
pretending to be a blind man who, when drunk, pretends to be the mute.
Mitsugorô VII also was in a March 1920 production of Sannin
Katawa (三人片輪) at the Teikoku Gekijô, but appears to have played
the character pretending to be a cripple who, when drunk, pretends to be
the blind man.
 
 



Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kikuchi Hankurô (菊地半九郎)

Play: Toribeyama Shinjû (鳥辺山心中)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
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Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kikuchi Hankurô (菊地半九郎)

Play: Toribeyama Shinjû (鳥辺山心中)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
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Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kikuchi Hankurô (菊地半九郎)


Play: Toribeyama Shinjû (鳥辺山心中)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
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Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Kasugaya Tokijirô (春日屋時次郎)
 
Onôe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Urasato (浦里)
 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Okaya (おかや)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)
 
Play: Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局); Kanjinchô (勧進帳);
Akegarasu Haru no Awa Yuki (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/17
Print Date: 01/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com