APRIL 1953

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)

Play:  Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri
(梶原平三譽石切; 梶原平三誉石切)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/53
Print Date: 08/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: The print could be considered a memorial
print as Kichiemon I died in September 1954.
 

                 
Kitamura Rokurô I (喜多村緑郎) as
Otsuta (お蔦)

Play: On'na Keizu (婦系図)
Performance Place: Shinjuku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/11/53
Print Date: 1953
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#10)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Rokurô I first played the role of Otsuta in this play in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in September 1908.  If the
publication date of this print precedes Rokurô I's April 1953
performance, then Gakô would have based this print on
Rokurô I's performance at the Shinbashi Enbujô in June
1952 or else on some other prior performance.