KAWARASAKI GONJÛRÔ III (河原崎権十郎)
1918 - 02/18/1998

 
Kawarazaki Gonjûrô III (河原崎権十郎; 河原崎權十郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1957
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Seeing as the actor assumed the name Gonjûrô III in March
1956, it is possible that this print was made to commemorate his
shûmei.
  
 
 
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                Kawarazaki Gonjûrô III (河原崎権十郎; 河原崎權十郎) as ?

                Play: ?
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 1957
                Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
                Personal Collection

                Note: Variant printing of the February 1957 print.

                   
Kawarasaki Gonjûrô III (河原崎権十郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1957
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection
 
Note: While it is not clear what character is depicted in this print, it
is possible that it depicts Gonjûrô III as Tarôkaja (太郎冠者) in
Migawari Zazen (身替座禅), which he performed as part of his
shûmei at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo on March 3, 1956.
 
 

                   
Lady in the Cloud [Likely an ascribed title]

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 08/10/67
Artist: Mitsui Atsuo (三井淳生)
Personal Collection (#11/100)

Note: This print is a cut down version of a 1957 print design of
Kawarazaki Gonjûrô III (河原崎権十郎; 河原崎權十郎) with
less coloring.  This copy was issued in 1967 inside a paper mat
that obscures the printing information set forth in the right
margin of the print.  The Honolulu Museum of Art has a copy
which it dates to c. 1957.  However, that print appears to have
been photographed inside of the mat and likely also bears a 1967
date.  Moreover, the dating of the Honolulu copy was probably
made based on the date of larger 1957 version of that design.  If,
however, Honolulu Museum of Art's copy actually lacks printing
information in the right margin, then the print shown here is
likely an 1967 reissue of that c. 1957 print.
 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kawarazaki Gonjurô III (河原崎権十郎) as Sashichi (佐七)

Play: Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)
[Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育御祭佐七)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/87
Print Date: 06/1987
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
Personal Collection (#18/72)

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

                 
Reminiscences I (思い出 I)

Print Date:  01/1999
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (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).
 
 
 
 

                   
Kawarasaki Gonjûrô (河原崎権十郎;
河原崎權十郎) as Saitô Sanemori (斎藤実盛)
 
Play:  Genpei Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)?

Note: It is unclear if if this is Gonjûrô II or III.  I
have not found a post-War performance with
either in the role of Saitô Sanemori, although it
was a favorite role of Gonjûrô II before the War.
Although purporting to be hanga genga in the
2002 and 1991 Shunsen catalogs, it appears
to be a finished painting and I have not found
a hand-colored keyblock print for this design.