Nakamura Utaemon V (中村 歌右衛門) as
Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん)
 
Play: Iseondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #7
Personal Collection

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村 羽左衛門) as
        Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢),
 
        Play: Iseondo Koi no Netaba
        (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/01/17
        Print Date: 07/1917?
        Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
        Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
        (千代 栄劇彩) #7
        Personal Collection
 
 
  

            
            Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助;
            澤村源之助) as Manno (万野)
           
            Play: Iseondo Koi no Netaba
            (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/01/17
            Print Date: 07/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩) #7
            Personal Collection

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V (中村 歌右衛門) as
            Maki no Kata (牧の方)
           
            Play: Maki no Kata (牧の方)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/01/17
            Print Date: 07/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩) #7
            Personal Collection
  
 

            
            Ichikawa Yaoza VII (市川八百蔵) as
            Yoshitoki (義時), in Maki no Kata (牧の方)
           
            Play: Maki no Kata (牧の方)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/01/17
            Print Date: 07/1917?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩) #7
            Personal Collection
  
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru
Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀), Act II of
Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki Kana
(時今天下知皐哉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
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) (#1)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also played this role in a production at
the Yokohama-za in September 1922.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects that performance. The print,
however, strongly resembles a production photograph from
the 1917 production.
 
 
 
 

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as
Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Matsude Seifû (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
*Personal Collection

                   
                    Kitamura Rokurô I (喜多村緑郎; 喜多村綠郞) as
                    Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

                    Play: Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森)
                    Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 07/14/17
                    Print Date:  07/1917?
                    Artist: Ohashi Gekkô (大橋月皎)
                    Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
                    Personal Collection

                 
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Ne no Izaemon (根の井左衛門)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Satomi Isuke (里見伊助)
 
Plays: Kokoro no Nazo Chûgi no E-Awase (意中謎忠義繪画合); Giô (祗王); Udewa (腕環);
Meisaku Kirikono Akebono (銘作切籠曙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/30/17
Print Date: 06/1917?'
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Taro Kaja (太郎冠者)
 
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Sakon Saburô (左近三郎)
 
Plays: Kamakura no Hito Yo (鎌倉の一夜); Tsunbo Zatô (つんぼ座頭); Madamu Batafurai (蝶子夫人);
Natsu Matsuri On'na Danshichi  (夏祭女團七)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/15/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum