JANUARY 1951

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Ninin Sanbasô (二人三番叟)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/05/51
Print Date: 01/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Danshirô III (市川段四郎) as
Sanbasô (三番叟)

Play: Ninin Sanbasô (二人三番叟)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/05/51
Print Date: 02/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Eizan no Sôchichû (叡山の僧智籌)

Play: Tsuchi Gumo (土蜘)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1951
Print Date: 11/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/1951
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#2)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ebizô IX first played the role of Moritsune in this
play in Tokyo at the Mitsukoshi Gekijô in October 1948,
and it is possible that Gakô based this print on that  performance.
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kiyomasa (清正)

Play: Nijôjô no Kiyomasa (二条城の清正; 二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyho
Performance Date: 01/01/51
Print Date: 01/51?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Personal Collection 

Note: The two folds suggest that this might have been a
kuchi-e or a magazine insert.