AUGUST 1925

                   
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若; 實川延若) as
Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play:  Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/25
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#14)
*Personal Collection

Note: Enjaku II  first played the role of Danshichi Kurôbê in
this play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1917.
 
 
 

       
        Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
        實川延若) as
        Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

        Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
        (夏祭浪花鑑)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 08/07/25
        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) [#C]
        Personal Collection

       
        Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門)
        as Mikawaya Giheiji (三河屋儀平次)

       
        Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami
        (夏祭浪花鑑)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 08/07/25
        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) [#C]           
        Personal Collection

                           
            Sawada Shôjirô (沢田正二郎) as
            Kunisada Chûji (国定忠次; 国定忠治)

            Play: Kunisada Chûji (国定忠次; 国定忠治 )
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô
            Performance Date: 08/1925
            Print Date:  08/1925?
            Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
            Medium: Lithograph
            Personal Collection

            Note:  Shôjirô also portrayed Kunisada Chûji in
            a production at the Ichimura-za in April 1927, as well as in a
            ilm version released in 1925.  It is possible that this print
            reflects ShôjirôI 's performance in one of those productions.

   

Plays: Sakazaki Dewa no Kami (坂崎出羽守); Zôtsukai (象つかひ); Kunisada Chûji (國定忠次)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/01/25
Print Date: 08/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum