MARCH 1925

                   
Bandô Shuchô III (坂東秀調) as
Shizuka Gozen (静御前)

Play: Michiyuki Hatsune no Tabi (道行初音旅), Act IV,
Scene 1 of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#7)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Sawada Shôjirô (澤田正二郎; 沢田正二郎) as
Kira no Nikichi (吉良の仁吉)

Play:  Kôjinyama  (荒神山)
Performance Place:  Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/01/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
Note: Shôjirô performed this role at the Shinbashi Enbujô in
November 1924, at  the Hōgaku-za in June 1926, and at the
Ichimura-za in May 1927.    It is possible that this print reflects
one of those performances.

                 
Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as 
Hazama Shinroku (間新六)

Play:  Gishi Tsuto Kaibutu Hazama Shinroku
(義士傳怪物間新六)
Performance Place:  Asakusa Shochiku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/14/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôjirô also portrayed Hazama Shinroku in a
production of Aida Shinroku (間新六) at the Shinbashi
Enbujô in March 1924 and in  Gishi Hazama Shinroku
(義士間新六) at the Teikoku Gekijô in March 1927.  It
is possible that this print reflects one of those
performances.

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Hato no Heiuemon (鳩の平右衛門)

Play:  Hato no Heiemon (鳩の平右衛門)
Performance Place:  Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/05/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kôshirô VII also performed the role at the Teikoku
Gekijô in January 1925 and April 1927.  I cannot rule out
the possibility that this print reflects one of those
performances.  Sadanji II, however, did not appear in
those productions, so if Hanayama's prints of  Kôshirô VII
and Sadanji II are from the same production of Kanjinchô,
it would have been the March 1925 production at the
Kabuki-za.
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play:  Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Sadanji II also performed the role at the Kabuki-za in
February 1926 and February 1928, and at the Teikoku Gekijô
in June 1929.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects one of those  performances.  Kôshirô VII, however,
did not appear in those productions, so if Hanayama's prints
of  Kôshirô VII and Sadanji II are from the same production
of Kanjinchô, it would have been the March 1925 production
at the Kabuki-za.

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (赤根屋半七)

Play: Akanezome (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shôchiku Gekijô,
Kobe
Performance Date: 03/01/25
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) #4
  Personal Collection

       
        Nakamura Fukusuke IV  (中村福助) as
        Sankatsu (三勝)

        Play: Akanezome (あかね染)
        Performance Place: Shôchiku Gekijô,
        Kobe
        Performance Date: 03/01/25
        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) #4
        Personal Collection

Operas: Il Trovatore; Faust; La Traviata; Aida; Cavalleria Rusticana; I Pagliacci; Rigoletto;
Madame Butterfly; The Barber of Seville; Carmen; La Boheme; Ernani; Tosca; La Gioconda; Otello
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10-19/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum