YOSHIKAWA KANPÔ (吉川観方) 

 1924

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Medium: Keyblock test print
Image courtesy of Ed Freis

Note:  This keyblock test print significantly alters
the lines on the collar,proper right sleeve, eye-
brows, bridge of the nose, and hands from those
on any known version of this print.design. 
Presumably the blocks were subsequently
recarved in whole or in part before a commercial
version of this design was released.  See the
entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.
 
 
 
 
 

   
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Medium: Keyblock print
Personal Collection

Note:  This is a keyblock test print with a tissue
paper overlay on the right sleeve with hand-
coloring suggesting the floral pattern of the
kimono.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
Personal Collection

Note: This is an unnumbered test print (though not a test print
corresponding to the keyblock print shown above).  It may be a
color variant or else an unfaded example of the first edition
printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum's copy for additional information.

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  This is the first edition printing of this design (edition of 100),
possibly faded.  Gado IV performed this role at the Shinbashi Enbujô
in Tokyo in June 1924, and likely performed it in Kyoto around that
time.  It is also possible that the play was called Shin Asagao Nikki
(新朝顔日記), a new version of  Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki that was
sometimes performed in its place.
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924
*Image courtesy of Scholten Japanese Art
 
Note:  This is the second edition printing of this design in a
variant color scheme.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.  A seemingly
similar version from the Ed Freis collection is shown in Brown
and Goodall-Cristante, Shin-Hanga: New Prints in Modern Japan
(Los Angeles County Museum of Art/University of Washington
Press 1996).  That copy is stamped on the verso as being a
sample print.
 
 
 
 
 

Kataoka Gado IV (片岡我童) as Miyuki (深雪)

Play: Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)           
Performance Place: Kyoto?
Performance Date: 1924?
Print Date: 1924 or later
Personal Collection

Note: This is either a color variant or a faded copy of the second
edition printing.  See the entry for the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum's copy for additional information.