Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Hanako (花子)

Play: Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/06
Print Date: 02/1906?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

Note: The caption of the print is Gaisen (凱旋) -
Triumphant Return.  Jûzô IV had just returned
from fighting in the Russo-Japanese War.  Two
other plays on the same bill at the Kabuki-za
were "Okuno Kiroku" (陸奥記録) and "Gunjin
Katagi,", two victory-commemorating war
dramas directed by Jûzô IV's adopted father
Kataoka Ichizô III (片岡市蔵).
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Izumi no Saburô Tadahira (泉三郎忠衡)
 
Kataoka Jûzô IV (片岡十蔵) as Okugata Kureha (奥方呉羽)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Minamoto Yoshitsune (源義経)
 
Plays: Oku no Kiroku (陸奥記録); Gunjin Katagi (軍人気質); Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/06
Print Date: 03/09/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 

                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)
 
Plays: Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月); Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝);
Sandaibanashi Totoya no Chawan (三題噺魚屋茶碗)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/20/06
Print Date: 03/26/06
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum