DECEMBER 1924

               
Ichikawa Shôchô II (市川松蔦) as Okaru (おかる; お軽)


Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Shôchô II also portrayed Okaru in the Michiyuki
Tabiji no Hanamuko (道行旅路花聟) [Ochiudo (落人)]
dance interlude between Acts IV and V of Kanadehon
Chûshingura at the Hongô-za in March 1924.   I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects Shôchô II's
March 1924 performance.
 
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 7
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play: Teppô Watashi (鉄砲渡し), Act V of
Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1924
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                    
Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/04/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                        
  Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵)
  as Kichisa (吉三)

   Play:  Oshichi Kichisa
   (お七吉三)
   Performance Place:  Hōgaku- za,
   Tokyo
   Performance Date: 12/1924
   Print Date: ?
   Artist: ?
   Medium: Woodblock printed
   matchbook cover
 
   Note: Omezô IV also performed
   the role of Obô Kichisa in Sannin
   Kichisa  (三人吉三) at the
   Mitsukoshi  Gekijô in February
   1948.                

                    
Plays: Oukyo to Rosetsu (應擧と蘆雪); Takatoki (高時); Kashiko ki Baka (賢き馬鹿)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/06/24
Print Date: 12/1924?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum