UTAGAWA KUNIMATSU (歌川国松; 歌川圀松) 

Unknown Dates

                   
Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若) as
Ii Kamon-no-Kami Naotaka (井伊掃部頭直孝)
 
Play: Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono
(大杯觴酒戦強者)
Print Date: c. 1920-1922?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
 
Note: This is a later printing of the previous
mitate print by Kunisada III.

                   
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Baba Sarurobê (馬塲三郎兵衛)
 
Play: Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono
(大杯觴酒戦強者)
Print Date: c. 1920-1922?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
 
Note: This is a mitate print.  It appears to be
a later printing of an as yet unlocated original
print, and is signed Kunimatsu instead of
Hôsai (Kunisada III).  However, it is also
possible that no earlier version exists.  Sadanji
II did portray Baba Sarurobê in a production of
Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono at the
Teikoku Gekijô in December 1918.
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
     
Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道),
covering Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2 of
Kumo ni Magô Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in November
1905, April 1910, and November 1916; at the Shintomi-za in December 1919,
at the Kabuki-za in May 1925, at the Teikoku Gekijô in November 1926, at the
Kabuki-za in September 1932, November 1933, and April 1936; at the Tôyoko
Gekijô in May 1938, at the Kabuki-za in February 1939, at the Tôyoko Gekijô in
December 1940, and at the Kabuki-za in April 1942, and May-June 1943. 
However, since Kunimatsu also lived in Osaka, it is also possible that this
print reflects a regional performance.
 
 
 

               
                Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
                Sanbasô (三番叟)
                     
                Play: Tanemaki Sanbasô (種蒔三番叟)
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
                Personal Collection
 
                Note: While I have found no record of Sôjûrô VII performing in Tokyo in
                Tanemaki Sanbasô (種蒔三番叟), he appeared as Sanbasô in various
                productions of Ayatsuri Sanbasô (操三番叟).