Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) aka Ichimura Kakitsu VI (市村家橘)

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
Dainaiki (大内記)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1917-1920
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代栄劇彩)

Note: Uzaemon XV portrayed Honda Dainaiki
(誉田大内記) in a production of Igagoe Dôchû
Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六) at the Shintomi-za
in Toyko in December 1919. It is possible that
theater designation on the print is in error.

            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: ?
            Artist: Utagawa Kunimatsu (歌川国松; 歌川圀松)
            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.

[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)

Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: ?

Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s. See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Oschichi. However, the image of
Uzaemon XV as Kirare Yosaburô is similar to a
1925 print by Miyake Hanayama.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)

Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role
seven times in Tokyo between October
1909 and July 1942.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)

Play: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eishô (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role
seven times in Tokyo between October
1909 and July 1942.

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

Play: Benten Kozo (弁天小僧) or a similar play
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kamishita Chikamine (神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed magazine print
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role at
the Kabuki-za in April 1911, at the Hongô-za
in June 1915, at the Kabuki-za in April 1918,
at the Shintomi-za in January 1922, and at the
Kabuki-za in October 1925 and December
1927. Given the dates that Chikamine is
known to have been actively designing prints,
it is likely one of the 1920s dates.

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)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Furuya Shin (古家新)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: Kabuki Sobyô-shû
(歌舞伎素描集)
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role
in Tokyo seven times between June 1906
and April 1941.

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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Ryûkô (柳紅)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although it is not clear the time period that Ryûkô was
active, it is believed to have been in the 1920s. During that
period, Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in December 1920, at the Shintomi-za in February
1923, at the Teikoku Geikijô in April 1925 and June 1927, and
at the Kabuki-za in November 1928.

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

Play: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Nobukata (Nobumasa?) (信方)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Although it is not clear the time period that Nobukata
was active, it is believed to have been in the 1920s. During
that period, Uzaemon XV performed this role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in March 1921, at the Teikoku Gekijô in June 1922,
at the Kabuki-za in February 1927, at the Teikoku Gekijô in
November 1927, and at the Kabuki-za in February 1929.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Tokijirō (時次郎)

Play: Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明烏春淡雪)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shikô (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role on several occasions,
including a production at the Kabuki-za in October 1931
(opposite Baiko VI). However, I can find no production in Tokyo
during the 1920s, the time when Shikô is known to have been
actively designing prints. It is possible that this print reflects a
regional performance.

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)

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as Yoeman (与右衛門)

Play: Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as
Igami-no-gonta (いがみの権太)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as Kirare Yosa (切られ与三)

Play: Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as Torazô (虎蔵)

Play: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (中村歌右衛門) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Nakamura Uzaemon XV (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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 10/20/68
Artist: Takahashi Yukio/Nakamura Tokie I (中村時枝)
Series: [Twelve Months of Famous Actors]
Meiyû Jyûni-Kagetsu (名優十二ヶ月)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Katagiri Katsumoto (片桐且元)

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Kimura Shigenari (木村重成)

Play: Kiri Hitoha (桐一葉)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
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

Note: Kôshirô VII performed this role opposite Uzaemon XV three times
at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in November 1935, April 1939, and October 1941.
One or more of those productions likely toured Osaka around those times.

Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Sakuramaru (桜丸)

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

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Umeômaru (梅王丸)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
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
*Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: These actors performed their respective roles in a
production at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in January 1934.
That production likely toured Osaka around that time.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Konoshita Tôkichi (此下東吉)

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Matsunaga Daizen (松永大膳)

Play: Kinkakuji (金閣寺, Act IV of
Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban (忠孝歌舞伎十八番)
Courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Uzaemon XV and Kôshirô VII performed their
roles together at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo in February
1934. That production likely toured Osaka around
that time.

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)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
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)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV
        (市村羽左衛門) as ?

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        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
(江戸育御祭佐七; 江戸育お祭左七)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this
role seven times between October 1908
and May 1942. Presumably one of
these productions toured Osaka.

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

        Play: Kami no Megumi Wagô
         no Torikumi
        (神明恵和合取組)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
        (長谷川貞信)
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        pochibukuro
        Personal Collection

        Note: Uzaemon XV performed
        this role seven times in Tokyo
        between January 1911 and
        January 1941. Presumably
        one of those productions toured
        in Osaka.

    Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
    pochibukuro shown above: Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
    實川延若); Bandô Jusaburô III (坂東寿三郎; 坂東壽三郎);
    Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎); Ichimura Uzaemon
    XV (市村羽左衛門)

    Print Date: ?
    Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
    Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

            Four pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
            pochibukuro shown above: Jitsukawa Enjaku II (実川延若;
            實川延若); Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門);
            Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) ; ?

            Print Date: ?
            Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
            Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

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: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro

            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)
            Performance Place: ?
            Performance Date: ?
            Print Date: ?
            Artist: ?
            Medium: Woodblock printed
            pochibukuro
            Personal Collection

            Note: Uzaemon XV performed
            this role in Tokyo seven times
            between June 1906 and April
            1941. Uzaemon XVII
            performed the role in Tokyo
            at the Kabuki-za in May 1972.

        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)
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        matchbook cover

        Note: Uzaemon XV performed
        this role in Tokyo seven times
        between June 1906 and April
        1941.

Ichimura Uzaemon XV
(市村羽左衛門) as ?

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

                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)
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Woodblock printed
                matchbook cover

                Note: Uzaemon XV first per-
                formed this role in Tokyo at the
               Ichimura-za in July 1906. His
                final performance in Tokyo
                was at the Kabuki-za in April
                1943.

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

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role in
Tokyo twelve times between November
1904 and October 1942.

        Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
        Inuzuka Shino Moritaka (犬塚信乃戌孝)

        Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
        (南総里見八犬傳)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Personal Collection

        Note: This is a mitate-e print.

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: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection

Note: Uzaemon XV performed this role
in Tokyo at least four times between
1916 and 1927.

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

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Print Date: ?
Personal Collection

Note: It is unclear if this postcard is
handpainted or woodblock printed.
Uzaemon XV performed this role in
Tokyo twelve times between November
1904 and October 1942.