Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)

NAKAMURA KICHIEMON I (中村吉右衛門)
03/24/1886 - 09/05/1954

APRIL 1904

Play: Kantai Homare no Yashû
(艦隊誉夜襲)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/1904
Print Date: 04/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as
Ichihashi Matahachirô (市橋又八郎)

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    Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Rokugô Kanjirô (六郷寛次郎)

    Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
    Sakurai Kengo (桜井賢吾)

    Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
    Eda Naoaki (江田直明)

JULY 1910

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀) disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十)

Plays: Tonosama Kanji (殿様勘次); Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記); Kaji (借児);
Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/07/10
Print Date: 07/10/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) and a second actor in unknown roles.

AUGUST 1910

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo (犬山道節忠友)

Plays: Satomi Hakkenden (里見八犬伝); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Shimizu Ikakku (清水一角);
Shirôto Geshukuya (素人下宿屋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/07/10
Print Date: 08/09/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The other actor depicted is as yet unidentified.

SEPTEMBER 1910

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Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Akashi no Shimazô (明石の島蔵)

Plays: Shima Chidori Tsuki (島鵆月白浪); Hachijin Shugo no Honjô (八陣守護城);
Fûryû Kuruwa-tsû (風流曲輪通); Toba-e Masu Ochi (鳥羽絵升落);
Mochizuki no Yoru no Tama Usagi (望月夜玉兎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/13/10
Print Date: 09/15/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

FEBRUARY 1912

Plays: Chikamatsu Kaikei Soga (近松会稽曽我); Higo no Kami Kiyomasa (肥後守清正);
Migawa Zazen (身替座禅); Koi Sumô Haru Kaobure (恋相撲春顔触); Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (寿靭猿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Print Date: 02/17/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover possibly depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ochikubo Koshirô (落窪小四郎)
and Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in Higo no Kami Kiyomasa
(肥後守清正).

SEPTEMBER 1912

Sugoroku of Portraits of Popular Characters (Atari yaku nigaoe sugoroku)

Print Date: 01/01/13
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Supplement to the magazine Engei Kurabu, Vol. 2, No. 1.

            Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

            Play: Momoyama Monogatari (桃山譚)
            Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/18/12
            Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)

JULY 1914

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ningyôya Kôemon (人形屋幸右衛門)

Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura
(敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/10/14
Print Date: 11/14/14
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: [Kabuki Portraits Set #1]
Personal Collection

SEPTEMBER 1914

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Aoki Teijirô (青木貞次郎)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kamiya Genzō (神谷玄蔵)

Plays: Ansei Kibun Tsukuda no Yoarashi
(安政奇聞佃夜嵐); Momijigari (紅葉狩);
Takubê Jôshi (宅兵衛上使)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/15/14
Print Date: 09/15/14
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection

NOVEMBER 1914

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as
Kobayashi Asahina (小林朝比奈)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Soga no Gorô (曽我ノ五郎)

Plays: Kongen Kusazuribiki (根元草摺引);
Awataguchi Hatsune Hitofushi (粟田口初音一節);
Kokoro no Nazo Chûgi no E-Awase
(意中繼忠義画合); Mukashibanashi Onigashima
(昔噺鬼ヶ島)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/14
Print Date: 10/30/14
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection

JANUARY 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Karaki Masauemon (唐木政右エ門)

Play: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/15
Print Date: 01/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

FEBRUARY 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kôchiyama Munetoshi (河内山宗俊)

Play: Kumo ni Magau Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花 ; 雲衣紛上野初花 )
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/1915
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Omiwa (三輪; おみわ)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Fukashichi (鱶七)

Plays: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana
(天衣紛上野初花); Imoseyama Onna Teikin
(妹背山婦女庭訓); Shinobi Au Haru no Yuki Doke
(忍逢春雪解); Tenchi Kinôgi no E-Awase
(天地金扇面画合)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/15
Print Date: 02/02/15
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection

APRIL 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Play: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 06/01/15
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 1
Personal Collection

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Sakakibara Yasumasa (榊原康正)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録);
Sukeroku Kuruwa no Momoyogusa (助六曲輪菊);
Hyakugumi Shusse Tobi (百組出世鳶);
Jômi no Sechie (上巳の節会)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/15
Print Date: 03/31/15
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection

Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Terasaka Kichiemon (寺坂吉右衛門)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Kobayashi Heihachi (小林平八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kanzaki Yogorô (神崎与五郎)

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Horibe Yasubê (堀部安兵衛)

Other actors not read

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 04/10/15
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This appears to be a mitate
print.

JUNE 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Ehon Taikôki (絵本大功記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1915
Print Date: 07/01/15
Artist: Terasawa Kôtarô (寺澤孝太郎)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 2
Personal Collection

JULY 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Fujioka Tôjûrô (藤岡藤十郎)

Play: Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha
(四千両小判梅葉)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Yura Hyôgonosuke Nobutada (由良兵庫助信忠)

Play: Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/02/15
Print Date: 08/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 3
Personal Collection

AUGUST 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ki no Aritsune (紀有常)

Play: Sugata Kurabe Ise Monogatari
(競伊勢物語)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 08/1915?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Ki no Aritsune (紀有常)

Plays: Sugata Kurabe Ise Monogatari (競伊勢物語); Migawari Zazen (身替座禅);
Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/15
Print Date: 08/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Landord Chôbei (家主長兵衛) in Kamiyui Shinza (髪結新三).

SEPTEMBER 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Taira Tomomori (平知盛)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/15
Print Date: 10/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 4
Personal Collection

NOVEMBER 1915

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/31/1915
Print Date: 1915?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: It is also possible that this print depicts
Kichiemon I in a production at the Ichimura-za in
January 1912.

MARCH 1916

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Plays: Zôho Momoyama Monogatari (増補桃山譚); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/16
Print Date: 03/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Takega (丈賀) in Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道).

JUNE 1916

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門 as Kinoshita Tôkichi (木下藤吉)

Plays: Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭禮信仰記);
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森); Kumo no Ito Oyozume Banashi (蜘糸宿直噺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note; The cover also depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Usugumo (薄雲);
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Matsubara Onio (松原鬼王), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Soga Jûrô
Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成), and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Soga Gorô Tokimune
(曽我五郎時致) in Youchi Soga Kariba no Akebono (夜討曾我狩場曙); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Gonpachi (権八) in Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森).

NOVEMBER 1916

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Hanakawado Uwasa no Manaita
(花川戸噂の俎板)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/16
Print Date: 11/1916?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed
Banzuiin Chôbé in an October 1919
production of Kiwametsuki Banzui
Chôbé (極附幡随長兵衛;
極付幡随長兵衛) at the Ichimura-za,
so it is possible that this print relates to
that performance. Stylistically,
however, it more closely resembles
Seifû's Yakusha-e prints of 1915 than
his later Nigao-e prints.

JANUARY 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Satô Masakiyo (佐藤正清)

Play: Hachijin Shugo no Honjô
(八陣守護城)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection

FEBRUARY 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
(近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed envelope
[Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata
(近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/17
Print Date: 02/10/17
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
[Fujisawa Postcard Set #2]
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #1]
Personal Collection

MARCH 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Hoshikage Doemon (星影土右衛門)

Play: Oya Yuzuri Gosho no Gorozô (親譲御所五郎蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/17
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

                    Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Kiuchi Sôgorô (木内宗五郎)

                    Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Jinbei (甚兵衛)

                    Plays: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民傳); Bôshibari (棒しばり); Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô
                    (親譲御所五郎藏); Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
                    Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 03/01/17
                    Print Date: 03/1917?
                    Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
                    Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
                    Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

                    Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵) in
                    Oyayuzuri Gosho Gorozô (親譲御所五郎藏).

JULY 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)

Play: Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru
Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

AUGUST 1917

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Saitô Kuranosuke Toshizo (斎藤内蔵之助利三)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Shibazaki (芝崎)

Plays: Saito Toshikazu Katataochi (齋藤利三堅田落); Kyôran Ikushima (狂亂生嶋);
Sakanaya Sôgorô (魚屋宗五郎); Mukashi Banashi Bunbuku Chagama (昔噺文福茶釜)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/17
Print Date: 08/1917?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sôgorô (宗五郎) in
Sakanaya Sôgorô (魚屋宗五郎).

FEBRUARY 1918

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)

Play: Koi Minato Hakata no Hitofushi
(恋湊博多諷)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/18
Print Date: 1918?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

MARCH 1918

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Bimyô (微妙)

Plays: Katakiuchi Shiraishi Banashi (敵討白石噺); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); Yakko Dôjôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/18
Print Date: 03/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺清心) in
Sato no Harugi Azami Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫).

MAY 1918

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ushiuemon (?) (丑右衛門?)

Play: Myôkendô Kezuka Yurai
(妙見堂毛塚由来)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Hato no Heiuemon (鳩の平右衛門)

Play: Hato no Heiemon
(鳩の平右衛門)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
Dainihen Series 2
(歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #3
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Hato no Heiuemon (鳩の平右衛門)

Play: Hato no Heiemon
(鳩の平右衛門)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro
Set #2]
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Hato no Heiuemon (鳩の平右衛門)

Play: Hato no Heiemon (鳩の平右衛門)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Mitsukuni (光国)

Play: Takiyasha (瀧夜叉)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/02/18
Print Date: 05/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩) #10
Personal Collection

AUGUST 1918

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Matsushima Senta (松島千太)

Plays: Oto ni Kiku Tenjiku Tokubệ (音菊天竺徳兵衛); Midori no Asa (緑の朝);
Shima Chidori Tsuki no Shiranami (島鵆月白浪); Kappore (かつぽれ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/18
Print Date: 08/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tenjiku Tokubê (天竺徳兵衛) in Oto ni Kiku
Tenjiku Tokubệ (音菊天竺徳兵衛).

NOVEMBER 1918

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Otokonosuke (男之助)

Play: Ume Momiji Nishiki no Dateori
(梅照葉錦伊達織)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/08/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

JANUARY 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Higuchi Jirô Kanemitsu
(樋口治郎兼光)

Play: Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらかな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro Set #A]
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Higuchi Jirô Kanemitsu (樋口治郎兼光)

Play: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/03/19
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo
(藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

FEBRUARY 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Keyamura Rokusuke (毛谷村六助)

Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai no Sukedachi
(彦山権現誓助刀)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/02/1919
Print Date: 02/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as
            Keyamura Rokusuke
            (毛谷村六助)

            Play: Hikosan Gongen Chikai
            no Sukedachi (彦山権現誓助劍)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 02/02/19
            Print Date: 02/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

MARCH 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Karaki Masaemon (唐木政右衛門)

Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Imohori Chôja (芋堀長者);
Ninjô Banashi Bunshichi Mottoi (人情噺文七元結); Mitsu Ningyô (三人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/19
Print Date: 03/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Izumiya Seibei (和泉屋清兵衛) and Onoe
Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakan Chôbê (左官長兵郎) in Ninjô Banashi Bunshichi Mottoi
(人情噺文七元結).

APRIL 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Saizaki Iga-no-Kami (幸崎伊賀守)

Play: Shin Usuyuki Monogatari
(新薄雪物語)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/30/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

JUNE 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/05/19
Print Date: 06/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

Note: This design was posthumously
reissued in a slightly different color
scheme when Kichiemon I reprised this
role at the Shintomi-za in March 1922.

                    Nakamura Kichiemon I
                    (中村吉右衛門) as
                    Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直實)

                    Play: Kumagai Jin'ya (熊谷陣屋),
                    Act III, Scene 3 of Ichi-no-Tani Futaba
                    Gunki (一谷嫩軍記))
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 06/05/19
                    Print Date: ?
                    Series: Kabuki Odori Sugata
                    Dainihen Series 2
                    (歌舞伎踊姿第二編) #7
                    Personal Collection

                    Note: Kichiemon I also performed this
                    role at the Ichimura-za in February 1916.

AUGUST 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Endô Moritô (遠藤盛遠)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kinugawa (衣川)

Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Kaîdan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹燈籠); Yoshiwara Suzume (吉原雀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/19
Print Date: 08/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tomozô (伴蔵) and Bandô Mitsugorô
VII (坂東三津五郎) as Hagiwara Shinzaburo (萩原新三郎) in Kaîdan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹燈籠).

SEPTEMBER 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Shikibu Genzô (式部源蔵)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection

            Nakamura Kichiemon I
            (中村吉右衛門) as Shikibu
            Genzô (式部源蔵)

            Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
            Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
            菅原傳授手習鑑)
            Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 09/06/19
            Print Date: 09/1919?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection

OCTOBER 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbêi (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbêi
(極附幡随長兵衛; 極付幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1919
Print Date: 1919?
Artist: ?
*Image courtesy of the Smithsonian's
American Museum of Asian Art

Note: The American Museum of Asian
Art attributes this print to Natori Shunsen,
but the signature on this print does not appear
to be that of Shunsen. Kichiemon I also
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
za in March 1909 and at the Meiji-za in June
1928, as well as at various venues thereafter,
but in size and style it is more like the actor
prints being produced in the late 1910s.
Around this time Kichiemon also portrayed
Banzui Chôbêi in Hanakawado Uwasa no
Naita (花川戸噂の爼板), a version of
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) at the Ichimura-za
in November 1916, but the costume is more
consistent with a production of Kiwametsuki
Banzui Chôbêi.

DECEMBER 1919

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kajii Shuzen (梶井主膳)

Play: Setta Naoshi Chôgorô (雪駄直し長五郎)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/29/19
Print Date: 11/1919?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University

MARCH 1920

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Plays: Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Shiobara Tasuke (鹽原多助)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/20
Print Date: 03/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Akidarugai Kyûhachi (明樽買久八)
and Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tasuke (多助) in Shiobara Tasuke (鹽原多助).

SEPTEMBER 1920

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kinoshita Tôkichirô (木下藤吉郎)

Play: Tane Hisago Shinsho Taikôki
(種瓢眞書太閤記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/03/20
Print Date: 09/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)
Personal Collection