SEPTEMBER 1922

Ichikawa Chùsha VII (市川中車) as
Mitsuhide (光秀)
          
Play: Ehon Taikòki (絵本太功記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This design (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color scheme
circa May 1919 when Chùsha VII played
this role at the Kabuki-za.
 
 
 
 

                                       
                    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 Kikyô no Hataage (時今也桔梗籏揚)
                    Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
                    Performance Date: 09/1922
                    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 of
                    Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
                    at the Ichimura-za in July 1917.  In fact, this print strongly
                    resembles a production photograph from that production. 
                    Consequently, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this
                    print on that earlier performance.
 
 
 
 

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

Play:  Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
(時桔梗出世請状)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za,
Yokohama
Performance Date: 09/1922
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed this role
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1927. 
I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.

                           
        Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
        Uirô Uri (外郎売)/Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

        Play: Uirô (ういろう) [Uirô Uri (外郎売)]
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 09/05/22
        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) (#15)
        Personal Collection

                 
Plays: Yuki no Yûbe (雪の夕); Ike (池); Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku (太平記忠臣講釈); Uirô (ういらう)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/05/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: [Anna Pavlova] An'na Paburowa (アンナ・パブロワ) Dance Recital
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/10-29/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum