Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1951
Print Date: 02/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Manno (万野)

Play:  Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃; 伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/54
Print Date: 09/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin Yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Manno (万野)

Play:  Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃; 伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/54
Print Date: 09/1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Kawashô ( 河庄), Act I of
Shinju Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1979
Print Date: 01/10/79
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits I (Design 8)]
Daiichi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 8
(第一期大首絵シリーズの8)
Personal Collection (ed. 45)

Note: A larger version of the actor's face was used for
Reminiscences I (01/1999).  Color variants of this print exist.
 
 
 
 

                 
Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date:  01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Personal Collection (#15/72)

Note: 35 copies from the edition of 72 were never printed.  Given
the difficulty in photographing this print in view of its large size, I
have used the image on the Kôkei website in lieu of one of my
own numbered copy.  This print contains larger versions of the
following actors' faces (left to right starting at the top row):

1. Kataoka Takao I (片岡孝夫) as Tsurigane Gonsuke (釣鐘権助) in
Sakurahime Azuma Bunshô (桜姫東文章), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (03/1981).
2. Sawamura Sôjûrô IX (澤村宗十郎) as Miuraya Agemaki (三浦屋揚巻) in
Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (07/02/1982).
3. Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in
Kawashô, Act I of  Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (1979/01/1979).
4. Onoe Tatsunosuke I (尾上辰之助) as Naosuke Gonbê (直助権兵衛) in
Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談),Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/02/1983).
5. Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo (悪七兵衛景情) in
Kagekiyo (景清), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/02/1984).
6. Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧) in
Yoshidaya (吉田屋), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1983).
7. Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫) as Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉)/Byakko (白狐) in
Kuzu no Ha (葛の葉), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (06/01/1986).
8. Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七) in
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (05/03/1987).
9. Nakamura Tomijûrô V (中村富十郎) as Kô no Moronô (高師直) in
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (02/01/1986).
10. Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門) as Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助) in
Keya-mura (毛谷村), Act IX of Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助剣; 彦山権現誓助剱), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (01/02/1997).
11. Nakamura Jakuemon IV (中村雀右衛門) as Sakuraya Koman (桜屋小万) in
Godairiki Koi no Fujime (五大力恋緘), Kabuki-za, Tokyo (09/01/1989).
12. Ichikawa Danshirô IV ( 市川段四郎) as Yasha Gorô (夜叉五郎) in
Jiraiya (児雷也), Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo (11/01/1992).
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbê (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Ninokuchi-mura (新口村), Act II of
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1982
Print Date: 11/1982
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits III (Design 11)]
Daisan-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 11
(第三期大首絵シリーズの11)
Personal Collection (#33/36)
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô II (中村鴈治郎) as
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛; 紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: pre-1957
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
   
Note: Ganjirô II performed this role in
Tokyo prior to the postmark at the Shinbashi
Enbujô in September 1948, at the Meiji-za
in February 1951, and at the Kabuki-za  in
August 1954.  A related pochibukuro can
be found in the Hasegawa Sadanobu III -
Undated Pochibukuro #2 section.
 
 

        
        Nakamura Ganjirô I or II
        (中村鴈治郎) as
        Kamiya Jihê (紙屋次兵衛;
        紙屋治兵衛)

        Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima
        (心中天網島)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection
   
        Note: This was a signature
        role for both Ganjirô I and II. 
        A postcard  with a 1957
        stamp is in the Hasegawa
        Sadanobue  - Undated 
        Postcards section,
        suggesting that it is Ganjirô
        II, but the design could also
        have been reprinted.
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Kibeya Jûbê (呉服屋十兵衛;
呉服屋重兵衛)
 
Play: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô II performed this role
in Tokyo five times between May 1970
and January 1980.  Ganjirô III
performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kokuritsu Gekijô in October 2004.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Ganjirô (中村鴈治郎) as
Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Ganjirô I performed this role at the
Shintomi-za in May 1915.  Ganjirô III
performed this role at the Kokuritsu Gekijô
in November 2002.