APRIL 1978

                 
Nakamura Kanzaburô XVII (中村勘三郎) as
Rôjo Iwate (老女岩手)

Play: Ôshû Adachi-ga-Hara (奥州安達原)
Performance Place: Kokuritsu Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1978
Print Date: 07/1978
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (one of two surviving copies from
 an edition of four)

Note: A trial work, not publicly sold.
 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon VI (中村歌右衛門) as
Hanako (花子)

Play: Kyôkanoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/1978
Print Date: ?
Artist: Menjo Sachiko (毛受幸子)
Publication: Nigao-e Kabuki Ehon
(似顔絵歌舞伎絵本)
Medium: Lithographic reproduction of artwork
Personal Collection

Note: Utaemon VI performed this role in Tokyo fifteen times
between April 1951 and April 1978.  It is possible that this
print reflects one of those prior performances
 
 
 
 .