CLIFTON KARHU

1983 

                   
[Village of Movies] Eiga Mura (映画村)

Place: Kyoto Studio Park
Print Date: 1983
Series: Kyoto (京都)
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Sôma Masakado (相馬将門)

Play: Kamahige (鎌髭)
Print Date: 1983
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Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: ?
Print Date: 1983
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Note: Benkei figures in a number of kabuki plays. 
Based on the character's wig and makeup, the print
possibly depicts a scene from Benkei Jôshi (弁慶上使),
Act IV of Gosho Zakura Horikawa Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討; 御所櫻堀川夜討).
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô X (市川海老蔵) as
Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政)

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Print Date: 1983
Image courtesy of Serge Astieres

Note:  Ebizô X performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1981.  It is possible that he
also performed the role in Kyoto around that time.
 
 
 
 

                   
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Print Date: 1983
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Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Ôgiya Yûgiri (扇屋夕霧)

Play: Yoshidaya (吉田屋) [Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)]
Performance Place: Minami-za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 03/1977
Print Date: 1983
Personal Collection (AP)

Note:  Prior to the date of the print, Bandô Tamasaburô V also performed this
role at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in Tokyo in January 1979, but it more likely that
Karhu saw his 1977 performance in Kyoto.  This has since become one of
Bandô Tamasaburô V's signature roles.