Nakamura Utaemon V (中村 歌右衛門) as
Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん)
 
Play: Iseondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭恋寝刃)   
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/17
Print Date: 07/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #7
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
                    Nakamura Utaemon V (中村 歌右衛門) as
                    Maki no Kata (牧の方)
           
                    Play: Maki no Kata (牧の方)
                    Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
                    Performance Date: 07/01/17
                    Print Date: 07/1917?
                    Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
                    Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
                    (千代 栄劇彩) #7
                    Personal Collection
  
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tonase (戸名瀬)
 
Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/22/17
Print Date: 10/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #1
Personal Collection
 
 
                       

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tadahiro Imôto Mitsue (忠広妹光枝)
 
Play: Kiyomasa no Musume (清正の娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/30/17
Print Date: 11/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)  #2
Personal Collection
 
 
                       

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Menoto Masaoka (乳人政岡)

Play:  Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place:  Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/1917
Print Date:  1917?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Series: Hyôban Rien Tansei (評判梨園丹青)
Courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Utaemon V first portrayed Masaoka in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in April 1914.  He also reprised the role at the
Kabuki-za in April 1920.  Depending on when this print
was published, it is possible that this print depicts one of
these other performances.  Based on the other known\
print by Fujisawa in this series, it is also possible that
it depicts some performance outside of Tokyo.

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川勝元)
 
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 12/1917?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩) #3
Personal Collection

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shinmyô Owasa (針妙おわさ)

Play: Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/17
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Koka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Utaemon V also performed this role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in
February 1920.  It is therefore possible that this print reflects Utaemon
V's 1920 performance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
[Abe no] Sadatò (貞任)
 
Play: Òshù Adachi-ga-Hara
(奥州安達原)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/18
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 Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Shigenoi (重の井)

Play: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
(戀女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/09/18
Print Date: 06/1918?
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 Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
                as Shigenoi (重の井)

                Play:  Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
                (恋女房染分手綱; 戀女房染分手綱)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 06/09/18
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄;
                藤沢竜雄)
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                envelope [Fujisawa Pochibukuro
                Set #1]
                Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
as Shigenoi (重の井)

Play:  Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna
(恋女房染分手綱; 戀女房染分手綱)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/09/18
Print Date: ?
Artist: Fujisawa Tatsuo (藤澤龍雄; 藤沢竜雄)
Medium: Woodblock print
[Fujisawa Accordion Album Set #2]
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tokihime (時姫)       
 
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki
(鎌倉三代記) 
Performance Place: Yokohama-za,
Yokohoma
Performance Date: 09/05/18
Print Date: 09/1918?
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 Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Hangan (判官)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
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
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi  (淀君)
 
Play: Yodogimi  (淀君)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/18
Print Date: 11/1918?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Katsura-hime (桂姫)
 
Play: Shuzenji Monogatari 
(修禅寺物語; 修禪寺物語)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/19
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
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yoshitsune (義経)

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
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V  (中村歌右衛門) as
[Minamoto no] Tametomo  (源実朝)
 
Play: Nagori no Hoshi Zukiyo
(名残の星月夜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/20
Print Date: 05/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Presumably this print is also part of
Envelope #50, although it was acquired
separately.

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V
            (中村歌右衛門) as
            Tametomo (為朝)
 
            Play: Nagori no Hoshi Zukiyo
            (名残の星月夜)
            Performance Place: Kabuki-
            za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 05/03/20
            Print Date: 05/1920?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III
            (歌川国貞)
            Medium: woodblock printed
            senshafuda
            Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Otani (お谷)
 
Play: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku no Uchimanjû
Musume (伊賀越道中双六の内饅頭娘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/20
Print Date: 10/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
^Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前)
 
Play: Tamamo-no-Mae Kumoi no Hareginu (玉藻前御園公服)

Print Date: 11/03/21
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Azuma Nishiki Yôjûtsu-kura (東錦妖術競)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
Chûrō Onoe (中老尾上)

Play: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishiki
(鏡山故郷錦)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/22
Print Date: 02/1922?
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 (lacking Kunisada's
signature and seal, no doubt because
Kunisada had died in 1920) was originally
issued in a slightly different color scheme
with a different actor playing this role in
February 1918.
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku  Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/1924
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Shin'ei (新栄; 新榮)
Series: Nigao-e (似顔絵), No. 2
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
^Note: A damaged copy is in the Karl collection.
 

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo   
Performance Date: 11/06/24
Print Date: 11/1924?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: In the relevant time period, Utaemon V also portrayed
Masaoka at the Shintomi-za in April 1923 and at the Kabuki-za
in October 1928.   I cannot rule out the possibility that this
print reflects one of these other performances.

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V
        (中村 歌右衛門) as
        Masaoka (政岡)

        Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
        (伽羅先代萩)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo      
        Performance Date: 11/06/24
        Print Date: 1928?
        Artist: K amishita 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
 
        Note: Utaemon V also performed
        this role at the Shintomi-za in April
        1923 with Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as Yashio (八汐)
        when Chikamine was active as a
        print designer.  I cannot rule out
        the possibility that this print
        reflects that performance.

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月)
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

Note:  Utaemon V first played the role of Yodigimi in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in November 1918.  He
also played the character in a play called Kiri Hitoha
( 桐一葉) at the Kabuki-za in October 1919 and at the
Hongo-za in October 1924, in a play called Ôsakajô
(大阪城) at the Kabuki-za in January 1921, in a play
called Seki-ga-Hara at the Kabuki-za in April 1925, and
in a play called Yodogimi Odawarajin (淀君小田原陣)
at the Kabuki-za in April 1926.  It is possible that this
print reflects Utaemon V's performance in one of those
 other productions.
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play:  Yodogimi Odawarajin (淀君小田原陣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#13)
Personal Collection

Note: Utaemon V first played the role of Yodo no Kata
(淀の方) in Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月)
at the Hongo-za in Tokyo in November 1913, at the Kabuki-za
in October 1916, April 1919, and June 1925; at the Shintomi-
za in May 1921, and at the Meiji-za in February 1924.  He
also played the character in a play called Yodogimi (淀君) at
the Kabuki-za in November 1918, January 1921, and October
1925; in a play called Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉) at the Kabuki-za
in October 1919 and at the Hongo-za in October 1924; in a
play called Ôsakajô (大阪城) at the Kabuki-za in January
1921; and in a play called Seki-ga-Hara (関ヶ原) at the
Kabuki-za in April 1925.   It is possible that this print
depicts any of these performance, especially the one at the
Kabuki-za in October 1925 if the print was published
before April 1926.
 
 
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play: Yodogimi Odawarajin (淀君小田原陣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Okamoto Ippei (岡本一平)
Series: Kabuki E-ban Gashū (歌舞伎絵版画集)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

               
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/28
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#7)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Utaemon V first played the role of Masaoka in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in March 1914.  Although
Utaemon V's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
October 1928, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Utaemon V's prior performances.  However, the
print is similar to a photo from the October 1928
production.

 

                 
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Fujiwara Tokihira (藤原時平)

Play: Shihei Kochi Nana Warai (時平公七笑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/28
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#22)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.   Utaemon V died on September 12,
1940 at age 76.
 

                   
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Yodogimi (淀君)

Play:  Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/35
Print Date: 1937
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Folder Cover for Yodogmi print

Print Date: 1937
Personal Collection

                   
Folder Colophon for Yodogimi print

Print Date: 1937
Personal Collection

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi  (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方) [Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu (沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays

Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)

Ichikawa Chûsha VII (市川中車)  as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳)

Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe Idahachi (尾上伊太八)

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)  as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi  (鏡獅子) and similar plays

Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô (鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I  (中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)

Title:  Dozô no Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
 

? as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Ohashi Gekkô (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.
 
 
 

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
        Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)

        Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Artist: Shôsui (松翠)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: Utaemon V portrayed Yoshitsune
        in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in April 1914
        and April 1920.
 
 
 
 
  

               
Nakamura Utaemon V  (中村歌右衛門) as
Masaoka (政岡)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: During the time when Shikô is known to have been
actively designing prints, Utaemon V performed this role in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in April 1923, the Teikoku Geikijō
in November 1924, and at the Kabuki-za in October 1928.
However, it is possible that this print reflects a regional
performance.
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)            
as Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前; 常盤御前)
 
Play: Tokiwa Gozen (常盤御前)
Performance Place: 02/04/23
Performance Date: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
as ?
 
Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: A similar print image can
be found in Eishô's Senshafuda
Set #3.
 

Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as ?
 
Play:  ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: 盛會御禮  
Personal Collection

Note: A similar print image can
be found in Eishô's Senshafuda
Set #2.
 

Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown  above: Nakamura Jakuemon III
(中村雀右衛門); Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門);
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎);
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門); Nakamura
Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
 
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌左衛門)
        as Agemaki (楊巻)

        Play:  Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六由縁江戸桜)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Princess Takiyasha-hime (瀧夜叉姫)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Image Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art
 
Note: I can find no record of Utaemon V performing
this role in Tokyo in a play such as "Masakado" (息子)
or "Kin no Zai Sarushima Dairi" (金幣猿島郡).
 
 
 
 

            
            Nakamura Utaemon V
            (中村歌右衛門) as ?

            Play: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            matchbook cover
                       
         

         
         Nakamura Utaemon V
         (中村歌右衛門) as
         Sadato (貞任)

         Play: Òshù Adachi-ga-Hara
         (奥州安達原)
         Artist: ?
         Medium: Woodblock printed
         matchbook cover
 
        Note: Utaemon V performed
         this role in Tokyo at Kabuki-
         za in May 1918.
           


           

       
       Nakamura Utaemon V
        (中村歌右衛門) as 
        Yodogimi (淀君)

         Play: ?
         Artist: ?
         Medium: Woodblock printed
         matchbook cover
   
         Note: Utaemon V performed this
         role in Tokyo at least ten times
         between 1913 and 1939 .   He
         also played the character in a
         play called Kiri Hitoha ( 桐一葉)
         at the Kabuki-za in October 1919
          and at the Hongo-za in October
         1924, in a play called Ôsakajô
         (大阪城) at the Kabuki-za in
         January 1921, in a play called
         Seki-ga-Hara at the Kabuki-za
         in April 1925, and in a play
         called Yodogimi Odawarajin
         (淀君小田原陣) at the Kabuki-za
         in April 1926.
 

       
        Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
        as Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo
        (犬山道節忠友)
     
        Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
        (南総里見八犬傳)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

   
    Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
    as Yodogimi (淀君)

    Play:  Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu
    (沓手鳥孤城落月)
    Performance Place: ?
    Performance Date: ?
    Print Date: ?
    Artist: ?
    Medium: Woodblock printed
    senshafuda
    Personal Collection

    Note: Utaemon V performed this role in
    Tokyo at least ten times between 1913
    and 1939 .   He also played the character
    in a play called Kiri Hitoha ( 桐一葉) at
    the Kabuki-za in October 1919 and at the
    Hongo-za in October 1924, in a play
    called Ôsakajô (大阪城) at the Kabuki-za
    in January 1921, in a play called Seki-ga-
    Hara at the Kabuki-za in April 1925, and
    in a play called Yodogimi Odawarajin
    (淀君小田原陣) at the Kabuki-za in
    April 1926.
 
 
  
 

Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as
Yaegaki Hime (八重垣姫)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
       
Note: The seller attributed this print to
Natori Shunsen.  Utaemon V
performed this role in Tokyo at at the
Hongô-za in November 1914, at the
Kabuki-za in January 1916, at the
Teikoku Gekijô in November 1916, at
the Shintomi-za in December 1919, and
and at the Kabuki-za in May 1925.

                                   
        Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
        as Honzô Tsuma Tonase (本蔵妻戶無瀬)

        Play: Act 9 of Kanadehon Chûshingura
        (仮名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: pre-1937
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
        Personal Collection

        Note: Toy man Hamajima Shizunami
        (濱島静波) commissioned Sadanobu
        III to produce this card for Muramatsu
        Hyakutoan (村松百兎庵 ) aka
        Muramatsu Shigeru (村松茂), a
        famous collector of local toys, kokeshi
        dolls, New Year's cards, and clay
        bells.
 
 
 
 

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Hangan Yoshitsune (判官義経)
 
Play:  Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Date: ?
Series: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
 
Note: While this print probably reflects a performance in Osaka, Utaemon V performed this role
opposite Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村卯左衛門) at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in March 1914 and in April 1920.