NAKAMURA BAIGYOKU II (中村梅玉)
02/08/1841 - 06/08/1921

aka NAKAMURA FUKUSUKE III (中村福助) (Takasagoya)

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)

Nakamura Fukusuke III (中村福助) as
Unread (Sankô?)
 
Unread as Honda (本多)

Unread as ?

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
馬場美濃 (Baba Mino)

Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Unread

Play: Yo ni Hibiku Taiko no
Isahoshi (世響太皷功)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/16/01
Print Date: 05/18/01
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

  Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
  (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
  Torii Shirozaemon?

  Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
  Unread

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎 ; 市川團十郎) as Jiraiya (児雷也)
 
Ichikawa Yonejûrô IV (市川米五郎) as  Yumechokichi (夢蝶吉)
 
Ichikawa Metora II (市川女寅) as Tag0to-hime (田毎姫)
 
Ichikawa Sadanji I ( 市川左団次; 市川左團次) as  Orochimaru (大蛇丸)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke III (中村福助) as Amide (網手)
 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as  Takasago Yûminosuke (高砂勇美三郎)
 
Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1902
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: I have not been able to locate a Tokyo performance of Jiraiya with this cast.   Several
cast members, however, appear in prints by Kunisada III and Kunichika circa 1884-1885.
 
 
 
   

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.
 
 
 

 
  Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Oyumi (お弓)    
           
  Play: Dondoro (どんどろ)
  Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
  Performance Date: 02/08/12
  Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
  Note: While Shunsen has written "中村梅玉," the program uses kanji that
  resembles "中村梅崔."  Could this be Nakamura Baijaku I (中村梅雀)?

                 
Hayashi Chôzaburô I (林 長三郎 ) as Fujiwara (藤原)
 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Okina (翁)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Michizane (道真)
 
Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as Akomaru (阿古丸)
 
Plays: Kankô (菅公);  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Wankyu Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山); Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/13
Print Date: 02/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Matsuômaru (松王丸), Nakamura
Fukusuke IV (中村福助)  as Sakuramaru (桜丸), and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Umeômaru
(梅王丸) in Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); and Nakamura Shibajaku IV (中村芝雀)
as Yaoya Oshichi (八百屋お七) and Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Osugi (お杉) in Date Musume
Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子).
 
 

                 
Horikoshi Fukusaburô (堀越福三郎) as Kaegagoro (替我五郎)
 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Haha Manjô (母滿江)
 
Plays: Chukô Shigure no Matsu (忠孝時雨松); Goban Taiheiki (碁盤太平記); Soga Kyôdai (曾我兄弟);
Osaragi Kuyô (大佛供養); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/03/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Mori Ranmaru (森蘭丸), 
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長),  Ichikawa Monnosuke VI
(市川門之助) as Odai (おだい),  Nakamura Naritarô I (中村成太郎) as Matsumushi (松虫), and 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Hayashi Shinroku (林新六) in Chukô Shigure no Matsu
(忠孝時雨松); and Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧), Nakamura
Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Fujiya Izaemon (藤屋伊左衛門), and  ? as ? in Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章).
 
 

               
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅若) as
Magoemon (孫右衛門)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi no Hikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/05/14
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#3)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Baigyoku II  died on June 8, 1921 at
age 81.
 
 

Nakamura  Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Heiemon (平右衛門)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/10/15
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
            Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)

            Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
            (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/10/15
            Print Date: 05/1915?
            Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as Konaya Magoemon (粉屋孫右衛門)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Koharu (小春)
 
Plays: On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎); Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒);
Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森); Ten no Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Noriaibune (乗合船惠萬歳)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/11/16
Print Date: 02/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛) and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八) in Suzu-ga-mori
(鈴ヶ森);  Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Kiri Ouchizuke (桐大内蔵) in On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎);
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時) in Kajiwara Heizô Tameshi
no Wazamono (梶原平三試名劒); and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) and  Ichikawa
Danshirô II (市川段四郎) in unknown roles.
 
 

Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Konaya Magoemon (粉屋孫右衛門)
           
Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網嶋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/06/17
Print Date: 04/1917?
Artist: Baidô Kunihide (梅堂国秀)
Series: Shin Kyogen (新狂言) #4
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Kakuju (覚寿)
 
Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/11/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
? as ?
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)
 
Ichikawa Danshirô II (市川段四郎) as
Moronô (師直)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Nakamura Baigyoku II (中村梅玉) as
Okaru (お軽; おかる)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as ?
 
? as ?
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za Shigezo
Performance Date:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of Artelino.com