NIGAO-E (似顔繪) 

  c. 1917-1924

            
Folder for Nigao-e (似顔繪), #12

Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

            
Folder for Nigao-e (似顔繪), #14

Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

            
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Tobizu Kamekichi (鳶頭亀吉) or
Tobizu Tsurukichi (鳶頭政吉)

Play: Kioi Jishi (勢獅子)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Print Date: c. 1917-1924
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: Between 1918 and 1925, Ennosuke II performed
in this play four times in Tokyo: at the Kabuki-za in
May 1918, the Shintomi-za in October 1920, a special
performance  at the Kokuritsu Gekijô in December
1924, and the Kan'non Gekijô in January 1925.  He
and an other actor would alternate playing the  roles
of Kamekichi and Tsurukichi. 
 
 
 
 

                
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Osen (お仙}

Play: Fuyuki Shinjû (冬木心中)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/22
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Igami no Gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/05/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔似顔繪), #14
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Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Abe no Yasuna (阿倍保名; 安倍保名)

Play: Yasuna (保名)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/23
Print Date: 03/1923?
Artists: Mori Shunchô (森春鳥); Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #14
Personal Collection

Note: This print designed by Shunsen's pupil Mori Shunchô
(森春鳥) with assistance by Shunsen.  I cannot rule out the
possibility  that this print depicts Kikugorô VI as Yasuna in
a production of Kosode Monogurui (小袖物狂ひ) at the
Ichimura-za in February 1922.
 

                
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as
Banzuiin Chôbé (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛)

Play: Suzu-ga-mori (鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Narukami  Jônin (鳴神上人)

Play: Narukami (鳴神)       
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車) as
Musashibō Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Ataka no Seki (安宅関)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #5
Personal Collection

Note: The folder says the play is Ataka
Benkei (j安宅辨慶).  Chûsha VII also
performed this role in an April 1921
production at the Shintomi-za, so it is
possible that this print relates to that
performance.
 
 
 
 

Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Danshichi Kurobê (団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/22
Print Date: 08/1922?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Note: Kôshirô VII also portrayed this role in an April
1916 production at the Teikoku Gekijô.

Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Umezu Kamon Motoharu (梅津掃部元春)

Play: Otoniku Tenjiku Tokubê (音菊天竺徳兵衛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
Note: Mitsugorô VII first performed this role in Tokyo
in August 1918 at the Teikoku Gekijô.  Presumably this
print reflects some later regional performance.

? as Danshichi Kurobê ( 団七九郎兵衛)

Play: Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami 
(夏祭浪花鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: If the actor is Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
實川延若), he performed this role at the Kabuki-za in
August 1917 and again in August 1925.              

? as Yosaburô (与三郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: If the actor is Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門), he performed this role in Tokyo
at the Kabuki-za in October 1916 and December
1920, at the Shintomi-za in February 1923, and
at the Teikoku Gekijô in April 1925. 
 
 

? as Shirabyôshi Hanako (白拍子花子)

Play: Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji (京鹿子娘道成寺)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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? as Kômori Yasu Gorô (蝙蝠安五郎)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(與話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?

Note: If the actor is Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助),
he performed this role in Tokyo at the Teikoku Gekijô
in April 1915, at the Kabuki-za in October 1916 and
December 1920, and at the Teikoku Gekijô in April
1925.  He also played this character in Kirare Otomi
(切られお富; きられお富) at the Teikoku Gekijô in
February 1918.

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: One dealer represented that the figure was
was Narukami (鳴神).  If true, that would mean the
actor is Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次),
who played the role in theplay Narukami (鳴神) at the
Teikoku Gekijô in December 1919.  Seeing as Seifû
already designed a print with Sadanji II in this role,
however,  I suspect that the print was stored in the
wrong Nigao-e folder and that the dealer was
erroneously relying on the wrong folder information
to describe the print.
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Murata Masao I (村田正雄) as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Play: Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥; 丸橋忠彌)?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #9
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

? as Sukeroku (助六)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #9

                
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #6

Note: Although no image is currently available,
the original folder indicates that this is a diptych.

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: The print may depict an actor as Danshichi
Kurobê ( 団七九郎兵衛) or Mitsuhide.

                
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 5/03/17
Print Date: 05/1917?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #12

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                
? as Yakko (奴)

Play: Tomo Yakko (供奴)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Akaneya Hanshichi (赤根屋半七)

Play: Akanezome (あかれ染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ganjirô I also performed this role at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in May 1930, but this would be
unusually late for Eisho.   It may reflect an intervening
regional performance.
 
 
 
 

? as Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵)

Play: Soga Moyô Tateshi no
Goshozome (曾我綉侠御所染)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
Note: The actor is likely Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) , who performed this role performed
this role in Tokyo at least ten times between April
1905 and April 1940.

                
? as Chinei (智恵内)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki
(鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Note: There is a related senshafuda design in
Eishô's Undated - Senshafuda Set #3 section.
 
 
 
 

                
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Minoya Sankatsu (美濃屋三勝)

Play: Akane Zome (あかね染)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/17
Print Date:  02/1917?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #6
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as
Yaegaki -hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/22
Print Date: 12/1922?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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? as Matsuòmaru (松王丸)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑;
菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection
 
 
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

Nakamura Senjaku I (中村扇雀) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nagoshi Kunisaburô (名越國三郎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
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Kitamura Rokurô I (喜多村緑郎; 喜多村綠郞) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/17
Print Date:  07/1917?
Artist: Ohashi Gekko (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ohashi Gekko (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ohashi Gekko (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #9
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts

Note: This is likely Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as Yodogimi (淀君) in Hototogisu
Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) or a similar
 play.  Between 1916 and 1925, Utaemon V played
this role in five Tokyo productions.
 
 
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ohashi Gekko (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

                
? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ohashi Gekko (大橋月皎)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #?
Personal Collection

? as Benten Kozō (弁天小僧)

Play: Aoto Zôshi Hana no Nishikie  (青砥稿花紅彩畫)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mizushima Nihofu (水島爾保布)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #5
Personal Collection

Note: This actor might be Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門), who played Benten Kozô at the
Kabuki-za in April 1918, and at the Shintomi-za in
January 1922.

Onoe Usaburô II (尾上卯三郎) as
Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)

Play: Tengajaya (天下茶屋)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Mizushima Nihofu (水島爾保布)
Publication: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #1
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Bandô Jusaburô III (阪東壽三郎; 坂東寿三郎) as
Abe Munetô (安部宗任; 安倍宗任)

Play: Ôshû Adachi-ga-Hara (奥州安達原)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/1921
Print Date: 12/1921
Artist: Akigusa Yasaburô (秋草彌三郎)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔繪), #12
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