OCTOBER 1922

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpo (吉川観方)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ganjirô also performed this play at the Shintomi-za in
Tokyo in November 1922, but I assume that Kanpo, a Kyoto
artist, saw it in Osaka.  It is also possible that it was
performed in  Kyoto somewhere around this same time.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpo (吉川観方)
Personal Collection

Note: This is a color variant test print lacking a mica background.
  
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihei (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/01/22
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: [The Brothers Karamazov] Karamâzofu Kyôdai (カラマーゾフ兄弟)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01-10/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed?  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum