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

Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden (南総里見八犬傳)
Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection

Note: Prior to the publication of this print, Kichiemon I
performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1910.
 
 
 

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: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/22
Print Date: 03/1922?
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

Note: This design (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color
scheme circa June 1919 when Kichiemon
I played this role at the Kabuki-za.
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)
          
Play: Sugawara Denjù Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/06/22
Print Date: 06/1922?
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

Note: This print (lacking Kunisada's normal
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920 is similar to a
senshafuda designed by Kunisada circa
March 1919 depicting the actor Ichikawa
Chùsha VII (市川中車) as Toneri Matsuômaru
(舎人松王丸) at the Shintomi-za.  
 
 
       

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

                Play:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
                (菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 06/06/22
                Print Date:  ?
                Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
                Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
                Personal Collection

                Note: Kichiemon I also performed this role
                at the Meiji-za in April 1928.  I cannot rule
                out the possibility that this print reflects that
                performance.
 
 

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

Play: Badarai no Mitsuhide (馬盥の光秀), Act II of
Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage (時今也桔梗籏揚)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
Performance Date: 09/1922
Print Date: 1925
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#1)
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also played this role in a production of
Toki-ha Ima Amagashita Shiru Satsuki Kana (時今天下知皐哉)
at the Ichimura-za in July 1917.  In fact, this print strongly
resembles a production photograph from that production. 
Consequently, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this
print on that earlier performance.
 
 
 

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

Play:  Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
(時桔梗出世請状)
Performance Place: Yokohama-za, Yokohama
Performance Date: 09/1922
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed this role
at the Shinbashi Enbujô in February 1927. 
I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as Kumagai (猪熊)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Asakusa
Shôchiku-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 04/01/24
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kajiwara Kagetoki ( 梶原平三景時)

Play: Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原}
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/24
Print Date: 05/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed this role in Agehachô
Homare Kajiwara Kajiwara (揚羽蝶誉梶原) at the Shintomi-za
in January 1923 and in Kajiwara Heizô Homare Ishikiri
(梶原平三誉石切) at the Hongô-za in January 1927.  I cannot
rule out the possibility that this print reflects one of these other    
performances.
 
 
 

                               
                Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
                Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) 

                Play: Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原}
                Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 05/09/24
                Print Date: 05/1924?
                Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
                Medium: Lithograph?
                Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
                Note: In the 1920s when Shikô was actively designing prints,
                Kichiemon I also performed this role in Agehachô
                Homare Kajiwara Kajiwara (揚羽蝶誉梶原) at the Shintomi-za
                in January 1923 and in Kajiwara Heizô Homare Ishikiri
                (梶原平三誉石切) at the Hongô-za in January 1927.  I cannot
                rule out the possibility that this print reflects one of these other   
                performances.
 
 
 

                  
  Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
  Ume no Yoshibê (梅の由兵衛)

   Play: Go Sanji Ume no Yoshibê (御存梅由兵衞)
   Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
   Performance Date: 05/09/1924
   Print Date: 05/1924?
   Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
   Medium: Lithograph
   Personal Collection

   Note: Kichiemon I also performed the role of Ume no
   Yoshibê at the  Hôgaku-za in April 1925.   I
   cannot rule out the possibility that this print reflects
   Kichiemon I's April 1925 performance.
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Ume no Yoshibê (武智光秀)

Play:  Go Sanji Ume no Yoshibê
(御存梅由兵衞)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/01/24
Print Date:  05/1924?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also performed
this role at the Hôgaku-za in April
1925.  I cannot rule out the
possibility that this print reflects
that performance.

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Danshichi Kurôbê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/16/1924
Print Date: 1924?
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
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:  Hôgaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/05/25
Print Date:  03/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Obô Kichisa (お坊吉三)

Play:  Sannin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami
(三人吉三巴白浪)
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/25
Print Date:  06/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門)
as Benshû (弁秀) .

Play: Kichisama Mairu Yukari no
Otozure (吉様参由縁音信)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/10/25
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)  
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors
of Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #4
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Teraoka Heiemon (寺岡平右衛門)
       
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo     
Performance Date: 09/1926
Print Date: 1928?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
(當世名優面影双紙) [#D]
Personal Collection

               
                [Kabuki Manga]

                Print Date: 1927
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Machine printed lithograph
                Personal Collection

                Note: It is unlcear if this is from the same magazine as
                Eiga Sutâ Sugao - Manga Hogoita (1927) by Kitazawa
                Rakuten shown elsewhere on this site.  The two pieces were
                acquired from the same dealer at the same time and are
                ascribed the same date, but appear to bear different artist
                signatures.
 
 
 

        
        Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
        Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)
           
        Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura (敵討天下茶屋聚)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 09/03/26
        Publication Date: 1927
 
    

           

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

Play:  Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
( 時今也桔梗旗揚)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô,Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/04/27
Print Date:  02/1927?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed Mitsuhide in a
production of Toki-mo Kikyô Shusse no Ukejô
(時桔梗出世請状) at the Yokohama-za  in September
1922.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.
 

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

        Play: Toki-ha Ima Kikyô no Hataage
        (時今也桔梗旗揚)
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/04/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        1st Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        1-shû (舞台絵巻 第1集)
        Personal Collection
 
       

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I as (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:  Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/02/27
Print Date:  04/1927?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I also portrayed Kôchiyama in a
production of  Kôchiyama (河内山) at the Meiji-za in May
1923.  I cannot rule out the possiblity that this print reflects
that performance.
 

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

        Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no
        Hatsuhana(天衣紛上野初花)
        Performance Place: Hongô-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/02/27
        Print Date: c. 1927-1928
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
        3rd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
        3-shû (舞台絵巻 第3集)
        Personal Collection

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date: [1929]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

       
        Nakamura Kichiemon I    
        (中村吉右衛門) as
        Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅子男之助)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 10/01/28
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯) 
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Series: [Images of Famous Actors of
        Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage Zôshi
        (當世名優面影双紙) #3
        Personal Collection
   

               
Nakamura Moshio IV (中村もしほ) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)

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

Play:  Nijô-jô no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za
Performance Date: 02/01/35
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as  ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1943
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I Portrait (中村吉右衛門像)
Background: Segawa Tomisaburô II (瀬川富三郎) as
Yadogiri (やどり木)

Play: Hana Ayame Bunroku Soga (花菖蒲文禄曽我)
Performance Date:  05/1794
Performance Place: Miyakoza, Tokyo
Print Date:  1947
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Note: The image of Tomisaburô II as Yadogiri is the reverse
 of the print by Sharaku.
 
   

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

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/04/50
Print Date: 01/1952
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shunsen Yakusha-e sen or Shunsen Shin Nigao-e sen
[Shunsen New Actor Picture Selection] (春仙新似顔絵選)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

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

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/04/50
Print Date: 01/1952
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print
Personal Collection
 
 

Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) as
Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣秀頼)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
 
 Sawamura Tosshô IV  (沢村訥升;澤村訥舛) as
Kita-no-Mandokoro (北政所)
 
Play: Nijō-jō no Kiyomasa (二條城の清正)
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: 05/1950
Print Date: 05/03/50
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Medium: Woodblock printed program cover
Personal Collection

Note: Nakamura Kanzaburō XVII 中村勘三郎) celebrated his
shumei at the Misono-za in Nagoya  with a troupe led by
his brother Nakamura Kichiemon I.  Other plays on the bill
included Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明鳥夢泡雪),
Kamakura Sandaiki (鎌倉三代記), Narukami (鳴神), 
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子), and Banzuiin Chobê ((幡随長兵衛;
幡随院長兵衛).
 
 
  

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

Play: Gozonji Suzu-ga-Mori (御存鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1951
Print Date: 08/1951
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

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

Play: Kiyomasa Sichûroku ( 清正誠忠録)
(aka Kiyomasa Wakare no Hito Fushi (清正別離諷))
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/52
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series:  Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#6)
Personal Collection (#42)

Note: Kichiemon I first played the role of Kiyomasa in
this play in Tokyo at the Ichimura-za in April 1915.  If
the publication date of this print precedes Kichiemon
I's final Tokyo performance in April 1952, then Gakô
would have based this print on Kichiemon I's
penultimate Tokyo performance at the Tokyo Gekijô
in November 1948 or else on some other prior
performance.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kajiwara Heizô Kagetoki (梶原平三景時)

Play:  Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri
(梶原平三譽石切; 梶原平三誉石切)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/53
Print Date: 08/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: The print could be considered a memorial
print as Kichiemon I died in September 1954.
 
 

              
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一條大蔵卿)

Play: Ichijô Ôkurakyô (一條大蔵卿), presumably
Act IV, Scene 3 of Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki 
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1953
Print Date: 08/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#5)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Kichiemon I first played the role of Ichijô Ôkurakyô
in this play in Tokyo at the Asakusa-za in April 1898. 
Although Kichiemon I's final Tokyo appearance in this role
was in June 1953, it is possible that Gakô based this print
on one of Kichiemon I's prior performances.