ICHIKAWA CHÛSHA VII (市川中車)
  03/19/1860 - 07/12/1936

aka ICHIKAWA YAOZÔ VII (市川八百蔵)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
***nosuke (***之助)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
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            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as ?
           
            Play: ?
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date:  c. 1917-1920
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
            Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
            (千代 栄劇彩)
            Personal Collection

                
                Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as Matsuômaru (松王丸)

                Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
                Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
                Personal Collection

                Note: Chûsha VII performed this role in Tokyo at least six
                times between 1919 and 1927.

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô ((吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 

 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 
Note: Chûsha VII performed this role at the Kabuki-za
in Tokyo in September 1920 and in March 1928.
 
 
 

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1921/05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
    
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/06/23
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: It is possible that this print depicts
Chûsha VII's performance at the
Minami-za, Tokyo, in November 1923
or at the Shôchiku Theatre in October
1924.

   
    Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)
    as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

    Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide
    (馬盥の光秀), Act II of Toki-ha
    Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki
    Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    matchbook cover
 
    Note: Chûsha VII performed
    this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-
    za in October 1918 and at the
    Meiji-za in October 1921.   
         

            
            Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as     
            Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)
 
            Play: Ataka no Seki (安宅関)
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
 
            Note: Chûsha VII performed
            this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku
            Gekijo in December 1919, at
            the Shintomi-za in April 1921, at
            the Asakusa Shôchiku- za in
            May 1924, and the Meiji-za in
            February 1929.

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Senoo Jûrô (瀬尾十郎)
 
Nakamura *** as
Saito Sanemori (斎藤実盛)
     
Play: Genpei Nunobiki no Taki
(源平布引瀧)
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: ? 
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
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
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