NOVEMBER 1924

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku  Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 2
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
^Note: A damaged copy is in the Karl collection.

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: In the relevant time period, Utaemon V also portrayed
Masaoka at the Shintomi-za in April 1923 and at the Kabuki-za
in October 1928.   I cannot rule out the possibility that this
print reflects one of these other performances.

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V
        (中村 歌右衛門) as
        Masaoka (政岡)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo      
        Performance Date: 11/06/24
        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) #3
        Personal Collection
 
        Note: Utaemon V also performed
        this role at the Shintomi-za in April
        1923 with Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as Yashio (八汐)
        when Chikamine was active as a
        print designer.  I cannot rule out
        the possibility that this print
        reflects that performance.   The
        envelope for Set #3 is shown in
        the Chikamine entry for June 1924.
 
 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 1
Personal Collection
 
 
 

           
            Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
            Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

            Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/06/24
            Print Date: 11/1924?
            Artist: Matsude Seifû (松田青風)
            Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
            Personal Collection

            Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed this role in an April
            1916 production at the Teikoku Gekijô.

                                                       
                Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
                Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

                Play: Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺 )
                Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 11/06/24
                Print Date: 11/1924?
                Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)  
                Medium: Lithograph
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                Note: Fukuzuke V first played the role of Hanako in this
                play at the Kabuki-za in December 1920.  He also played
                Hanako in Tokyo in productions of Kyôganoko Musume
                Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺) at the Kabuki-za in April 1916
                and at the Tokyo Minami-za in December 1923.  I cannot
                entirely rule out the possibility that this print reflects
                Fukusuke V's December 1923 performance.

                    
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sakakibara Takao (榊原高尾); Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum