JANUARY 1925

                   
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play:  Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森), Act III of
Ukiyozuka Hiyoku no Inazuma (浮世柄比翼稲妻)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#10)
Personal Collection

Note: Sumizô VI first played Gonpachi in this play in Tokyo
at the Engi-za in July 1910.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also played this role at the Shintomi-za in October 1914.

                   
Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Takechi Mitsuhide
(武智光秀) disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十)

Play:  Ehon Taikôki (絵本大功記; 絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#17)
Personal Collection

Note: Chûsha VII first played Mitsuhide in this play in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in May 1919.  Prior to his 1925 perform-
ance, he also played this role at the Meiji-za in September
1922, and at the Hongô-za in April 1924.  It is possible that
Shunsen based this print on one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵)

Play: Soga Moyô Tateshi no Goshozome
(曽我綉侠御所染; 曽我誘侠御所染)
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1925
Print Date:  01/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

 

Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Tsurukichi ( 鳶頭鶴吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: Asakusa Kôen
Kan'non Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/31/24
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#A]
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ennocuki II also performed
this role in a special performance
at the Kokugikan (国技館)  in
December 1924.   It is  possible
that this print reflects that
performance.  The envelope for Set #A
is shown in the Chikamine entry for
May 1924.
     

                                   
        Morita Kan'ya XIII
        (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
        Yakko-dako (奴凧)

        Play: Yakko-dako (奴凧)
        Performance Place:Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 01/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #5
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: The envelope for Set #5 is shown
        in the Chikamine entry for January 1928.

Plays: Osakabe Hime (小坂部姫); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);
Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/01/25
Print Date: 01/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum