April 1925

APRIL 1925

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927. It is possible that this print reflects Baikô VI's
performance in that production.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927. It is possible that this print reflects Uzaemon XV's
performance in that production.

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927. It is possible that this print reflects Matsusuke IV's
performance in that production. This print closely resembles
one made by Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光) around the same time.
One wonders if they might be the same artist or if Shikô was a
pseudonym adopted by a publisher who knocked off
Hanayama's design.

Onoe Baiko VI (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi (おとみ)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
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) #1
*Personal Collection

        Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
        Izutsuya Tazaemon (井筒屋太左衛門)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        *Personal Collection

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        *Personal Collection

        Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助)
        as Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        Personal Collection

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
    `   Personal Collection

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Geikijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed
this role multiple times during his career,
he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when
Shikô was actively making prints. It is
possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the
Teikoku Geikijô in June 1927.

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kômori Yasu (蝙蝠安)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although Matsusuke IV performed this role multiple
times during his career, he only performend the role in Tokyo
twice during the 1920s, the period when Shikô was actively
making prints. It is possible that this print reflects Matsusuke
IV's subsequent performance at the Teikoku Geikijô in June
1927. This print closely resembles one made by Miyake
Hanayama (三宅花山) around the same time. One wonders if
they might be the same artist or if Shikô was a pseudonym
adopted by a publisher who knocked off Hanayama's design.

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)

Play: Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed Ômori Hikoshichi in a
production at the Kabuki-za in March 1926. I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects that
performance.

Operas: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Tsuchigumo (土蜘);
Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七); Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum