APRIL 1952

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

Play: Kiyomasa Sichûroku ( 清正誠忠録)
(aka Kiyomasa Wakare no Hito Fushi (清正別離諷))
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series:  Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#6)
Personal Collection (#42)

Note: Kichiemon I first played the role of Kiyomasa in
this play in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in April 1915.  If
the publication date of this print precedes Kichiemon
I's final Tokyo performance in April 1952, then Gakô
would have based this print on Kichiemon I's
penultimate Tokyo performance at the Tokyo Gekijô
in November 1948 or else on some other prior
performance.
 
 
 

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#12)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum