ICHIMURA UZAEMON XV (市村羽左衛門)
  1874 - 05/06/1945

aka ICHIMURA KAKITSU VI (市村家橘)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV  (市村羽左衛門) as
Miuranosuke (三浦之助)
 
Play: Kamakura Sandaiki
(鎌倉三代記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 02/1921?
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 posthumous design was
originally issued in a slightly different
color scheme circa September 1918
when Uzaemon XV played this role at
the Yokohama-za.  The print is signed
"Kunimatsu," but that is believed to be
a pseudonym adopted by the publisher
to hide the fact that it recycles Kunisada
III's original design a few months after
Kunisada's death and is not suggestive
that the artist in question was Utagawa
Kunimatsu (歌川國松).
 
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/06/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda

L: Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Danshichi Kurobei
(団七九郎兵衛);
R: Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七)
 
Play: L: Sono Sugata Danshichi Jima
(其姿団七縞);
R: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
(江戸育お祭佐七 )
Performance Place: L: Meiji-za, Tokyo;
R: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: L: 04/03/21
R: 02/06/21
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
[Komatsuya] Sôshichi ([小松屋]宗七 )   
 
Play: Koi no Minato Hakata no Hitofushi (恋湊博多諷) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21  
Print Date: 05/1921?
Artist: ?
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This print is similar in format to the series of
prints designed  by Kunisada III between 1917 and
1920, and was probably issued by the publisher in a
limited attempt to continue the series after Kunisada
III's death in 1920.  It is also possible that it is a
posthumous reissue of an unknown Kunisada III
design.
 
 
  

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Sakuramaru (桜丸)
 
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/21
Print Date: 1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Uekiya Kichigorô (植木屋吉五郎)

Play: Midareyaki (みだれ焼)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/21
Print Date: 1921
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asia Art
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Jiraiya (児雷也)
 
Play: Jiraiya Gôketsu Monogatari (児雷也豪傑譚語)
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: This is a mitate-e.  Prior to the publication of this
print, Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in July 1918.
 
 

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
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Yashio (八汐)
      
Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi
(伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Hongô-za,
Tokyo     
Performance Date: 06/06/24
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
 
Note: Uzaemon XV also performed
this role at the Shintomi-za in April
1923 with Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村 歌右衛門) as Masaoka
(政岡) when Chikamine was
active as a print designer.  I
cannot rule out the possibility
that this print reflects that
performance.
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Gosho no Gorozô (御所の五郎蔵)

Play: Soga Moyô Tateshi no Goshozome
(曽我綉侠御所染; 曽我誘侠御所染)
Performance Place:  Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1925
Print Date:  01/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/25
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Woodblock printed
envelope (pochibukuro) [Set OG1]
Personal Collection
      

                         
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
        Sukeroku (助六)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻) 
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        Print Date:  02/1925?
        Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
        Medium: Lithograph
        Personal Collection

 
 

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as
        Sukeroku (助六)

        Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
        (助六所縁江戸櫻)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 02/08/25
        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) #2
        Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sukeroku (助六)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Agemaki (揚巻)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/08/25
Print Date: 02/1925?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Personal Collection

Note: The same design was used for an earlier production at
the Kabuki-za in 1915 that also featured Ichimura Uzaemon XV.
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/25
Print Date: 04/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Baikô VI, Uzaemon XV, and Matsusuke IV also
appeared in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in June
1927.  It is possible that this print reflects Uzaemon XV's
performance in that production.
 

       
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

        Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
        Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
        Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 04/01/25
        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) #1
        Personal Collection

       

           
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
            as Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎)

            Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no
            okogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
            Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô,
            Tokyo
            Performance Date: 04/01/25
            Print Date: 1928?
            Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
            (神下周峯)
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
    `       Personal Collection

       

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Naojirô (直次郎)

Play: Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)    
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
Print Date: 05/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV also performed this role opposite
Baikô VI  in a production at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1926, but this print more closely resembles a
photograph from the 1925 production. 
 
 
 

                   
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: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/25
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) (#3)
*Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV first played Naojirô in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in November 1905.  Prior to his 1925 performance,
he also performed this role at the Kabuki-za in April 1910, at
the Kabuki-za in November 1916, and at the Shintomi-za in
December 1919.  Depending on the precise publication date
of this print, it is possible that Shunsen modeled this print
after Uzaemon XV's 1916 or 1919 performances.
 
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Ojô Kichisa (お嬢吉三)

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

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Ojô Kichisa (お嬢吉三)

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: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: This and the other postcard on this
page bear a different seal and may not
actually be Hanayama.  However, they
are included here because of their
obvious similarities to prints by
Hanayama.
 
 

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as 
Omatsuri Sashichi (御祭佐七; お祭佐七; お祭左七)

Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi (江戸育お祭佐七)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/25
Print Date: 07/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 

        
        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
        as Omatsuri Sashichi (お祭佐七;
        お祭左七)

        Play: Edo Sodachi Omatsuri Sashichi
        (江戸育お祭佐七)
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: 07/01/25
        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) [#C]
        Personal Collection
 
 

        

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as 
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also performed
the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô (弁天小僧) at
the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is possible that this print
reflects Uzaemon XV's performance in that later production.

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Benten Kozô (弁天小僧)

Play:  Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/1925
Print Date:  10/1925?
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV, Chûsha VII, and Sadanji II also
performed the same roles in a production of Benten Kozô
(弁天小僧) at the Kabuki-za in December 1927.  It is
possible that this print reflects Uzaemon XV's performance
in that later production.

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)   

Nakamura Kaisha I (中村魁車) as
Tonami (戸浪)

Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Takebe Genzô (武部源蔵)

Ichikawa Ebijûrô VII (市川鰕十郎) as
Shundô Genba (春藤玄蕃)

Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習鑑; 菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 1926
Artist: Konô Michisei (河野通勢)
Series: Kabuki E-ban Gashū (歌舞伎絵版画集)
Personal Collection
 
Note: All but Ebijûrô I performed their particular roles at the
Kabuki-za in Tokyo in April 1926.  It is unclear if Ebijûrô I
is listed in error, if he was a replacement for the actor
during the run, or if the print actually reflects a performance
on tour and not the one at the Kabuki-za. 
 
 
 

[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.
 
 
 
 

         
          Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
          Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)
          
          Play: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai
          (河内山と直侍) 
          Artist: ?
          Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
          Performance Date: 11/01/26
          Publication Date: 1927

 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
as Okaru (おかる)
Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Michiyuki Tabiji no Hanamuko
(道行旅路花聟) between Acts IV and
V of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/27
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
 
 
 
 

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: Naka-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 03/01/27
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
Artist:  Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Stage Picture Scroll -
2nd Collection] Butai Emaki dai
2-shû (舞台絵巻 第2集)
Image courtesy of Gary
Christenson
 
 
 
       

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as
Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨)

Play: Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa
(侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/03/27
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

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kanpei (勘平)

Play: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1927
Artist: Miyake Hanayama (三宅花山)
Medium: Lithograph
Print Date: 11/1927?
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV also portrayed Kanpei in a
production of Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵) a the Naka-za in Osaka in March
1924.  I cannot rule out the possibility that this print
reflects that performance.
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/28
Print Date: c. 1927-1928
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) #6
Personal Collection
 

                   
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play:  Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六由縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/29
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

Note: Uzaemon XV first performed the role of Sukeroku in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in June 1906.  He reprised the role
at the Kabuki-za in April 1915 and February 1925. Depending
on when this print was published, it is possible that it reflects
one of those earlier performances.
 
 
 
  

                 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎)

Play: Naozamurai (直侍) [Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no
Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道)]
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/32
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)  (#26)
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.  Uzaemon XV died on May 6, 1945
at age 72.  He first played the role of Kataoka Naojirô  in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in April 1910, and his .final
Tokyo appearance in this role was at the Kabuki-za in
June 1943.  This print, however, closely resembles a
photograph from the September 1932 production at the
 Kabuki-za.

                   
Kasane no Budai Shôwa Kyûnen Jûgatsu Kabuki-za (かさねの舞台昭,和九年十月歌舞伎座)

Play: Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/34
Print Date: 10/1934
Artist; Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)

Note: Although Hasui may not have known the actors when he designed the set, Yoemon (与右衛門) was portrayed by Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) and Kasane (かさね) was portrayed by Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) in this production.
 

                   
Hirakana Seisuiki  no ****, Shôwa Kyûnen Jûgatsu Kabuki-za (ひらかな盛衰記の**向*, 昭和九年十一月歌舞伎座)

Play: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらかな盛衰記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/34
Print Date: 11/1934
Artist; Kawase Hasui (川瀬巴水)
Image courtesy of Mike Peters

Note: Although Hasui may not have known the actors when he designed the set, the cast in this production included Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)
as Chidori (千鳥), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Enju (延寿), and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue  (梶原源太景季).
 
 
 
 

               
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門 ) as
Megumi Tatsugorô (め組辰五郎)

Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô no Torikumi
(神明恵和合取組)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1941
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#3)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Uzaemon XV first played the role of Tatsugorô in this
play in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in January 1911.  Although
Uzaemon XV's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in
January 1941, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Uzaemon XV's prior performances.