OCTOBER 1919

                            
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbêi (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbêi
(極附幡随長兵衛; 極付幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1919
Print Date: 1919?
Artist: ?
*Image courtesy of the Smithsonian's
American Museum of Asian Art

Note: The American Museum of Asian
Art attributes this print to Natori Shunsen,
but the signature on this print does not appear
to be that of Shunsen.  Kichiemon I also
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
za in March 1909 and at the Meiji-za in June
1928, as well as at various venues thereafter, 
but in size and style it is more like the actor
prints being produced in the late 1910s.
Around this time Kichiemon also portrayed
Banzui Chôbêi in Hanakawado Uwasa no
Naita (花川戸噂の爼板), a version of
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) at the Ichimura-za
in November 1916, but the costume is more
consistent with a production of Kiwametsuki
Banzui Chôbêi.

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Maeda Dainagon Toshiie (前田大納言利家)
 
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as  Asaka Shôjirô (浅香庄次郎)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tobe Toshitake (卜部季武)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hana no Ka (花の香)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Koman (小萬)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Satsuma Gengobê (薩摩源五兵衛)
 
Plays: Seki-ga-Hara (關ヶ原); Uchi Ubume (姑穫鳥); Godairiki Koi no Fûjime (五大力戀緘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/19
Print Date: 10/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum