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Photo Ichimura Uzaemon XV and Matsumoto Koshiro VII Kanjincho

Kabuki actors Ichimura Uzaemon XV - 十五代目市村羽左衛門 (as Togashi) and Matsumoto Kōshirō VII - 七代目松本幸四郎 (as the Warrior Monk Benkei) at the Kabukiza 歌舞伎座, Tōkyō 東京 in the 1930s This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken at the Kabukiza in 1930 in Tokyo. He is dressed as Togashi, the aristocrat in charge of the road barrier in the play Kanjincho, or the Subscription List. During the 1930s Uzaemon played opposite another popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro VII who played Musashibo Benkei, the warrior monk and retainer of Minamoto Yoshitsune. Also in the picture is Ito Shinsui and possibly Hasui Kawase, both artists who were part of the revival at the time of the Ukiyo e woodblock print. They are surrounded by other dignitaries both Japanese and Western. The Western woman may possibly be an actress. It was around this time that Kabuki as an art form was being popularized in the West and shortly before Charlie Chaplin visited Japan in 1932 and saw the Kabuki at the Minamiza in Kyoto and the Kabukiza in Tokyo where he met Nakamura Kichiemon I. Chaplin was and is still, extermely popular in japan and his film 'City Lights' was adapted to Kabuki being called Komori no Yasusan, or Batman Yasu

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Photo Ichimura Uzaemon XV and Matsumoto Koshiro VII Kanjincho

Kabuki actors Ichimura Uzaemon XV - 十五代目市村羽左衛門 (as Togashi) and Matsumoto Kōshirō VII - 七代目松本幸四郎 (as the Warrior Monk Benkei) at the Kabukiza 歌舞伎座, Tōkyō 東京 in the 1930s This is a photograph of the popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon XV taken at the Kabukiza in 1930 in Tokyo. He is dressed as Togashi, the aristocrat in charge of the road barrier in the play Kanjincho, or the Subscription List. During the 1930s Uzaemon played opposite another popular Meiji period Kabuki actor Matsumoto Koshiro VII who played Musashibo Benkei, the warrior monk and retainer of Minamoto Yoshitsune. Also in the picture is Ito Shinsui and possibly Hasui Kawase, both artists who were part of the revival at the time of the Ukiyo e woodblock print. They are surrounded by other dignitaries both Japanese and Western. The Western woman may possibly be an actress. It was around this time that Kabuki as an art form was being popularized in the West and shortly before Charlie Chaplin visited Japan in 1932 and saw the Kabuki at the Minamiza in Kyoto and the Kabukiza in Tokyo where he met Nakamura Kichiemon I. Chaplin was and is still, extermely popular in japan and his film 'City Lights' was adapted to Kabuki being called Komori no Yasusan, or Batman Yasu

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Kabuki actors Ichimura Uzaemon XV - (as Togashi -: ) and Matsumoto Kshir VII - (as the Warrior Monk Benkei

kei - : at the Imperial Theatre (Teikoku Gekijo) , Tky in the late 1930s early 1940s Possibly taken by Ihei Kimura ()

Left hand photograph from left to right (1) Kojima Zensabur ? (1893-1962) aged 37. Artist (2) Sekiya Kimiko - , Uzaemons niece? (3) Yokichi Koh, cellist and husband of Hedi Koh (4) Hedi Koh (born (Hedwig Wekel) (1909 - 2012) Ballerina with the Leipzig Opera, wife of Yukichi Koh (5) Ichimura Uzaemon XV - (signed) (1874 - 6 May 1945), tachiyaku (male role actor) dressed as Togashi from the play Kanjinch, the Subscription List (). Tachibanaya guild. Born Ichimura Rokutaro. Was also previously known by the actors names Ichimura Kakitsu VI, Bando Takematsu, and Bando Kakitsu II. Became President of the Greater Japan Actors Association and led an actors troupe named after him. During the pre war years he enchanted Faubion Bowers at the Americans first attendance at a Kabuki performance and some feel that it was the power and majesty of Uzaemons charismatic performance in the revenge play Kanadehon Chushingura (aka the 47 Ronin) that endured Bowers to Kabuki to the extent that he (Bowers) later mediated on behalf of Kabuki with the post WWII SCAP (US) Occupation censors and was subsequently hailed as the man who saved Kabuki (Okamoto Shiro, trans Leiter S L. The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan. University of Hawaii Press. 2001) (6) It Shinsui - (4 February 18988 May 1972) aged 32. Ukiyo e woodblock printer and Nihonga artist. Born It Hajime (7) Richard Sorge? (1895-1944) Soviet spy (8) Hasui Kawase - ? (1883-1957) aged 47. Painter of Shin Hanga (new prints) style of revived woodblock printing (9)? Right hand photograph: Same group but includes Matsumoto Kshir VII - (signed) (12 May 1870-27 January 1949), tachiyaku (male role actor), dressed as the Warrior Monk Benkei (from the play Kanjinch, the Subscription List ) was one of his

common roles. Kraiya guild. He also sometimes took on the role of onnagata. Was also previously known as Ichikawa Komazo VIII, Ichikawa Somegoro IV, Ichikawa Kintaro, Fujima Kanemon III. Involved in the post WWII Terakoya incident when SCAP (US) Occupation Forces censors banned the play from being staged, accompanied by a rumour that Japanese and US Military Police had invaded the stage during a performance to stop the play. This was subsequently found to be untrue; the play continued to be performed for another four afternoons before the evening run of plays replaced those previously used for the afternoon (Okamoto Shiro, trans Leiter S L. The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan. University of Hawaii Press. 2001) Both prints signed by the respective kabuki actor Date: 1930 5 Shwa Size: each photo - 265mm x 209mm Location: Kabukiza , Tky a performance of Kanjinch , The Subscription List Sound recording of the play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnqWFQP5rqE With the voices of Ichimura Uzaemon XV (Togashi) and Matsumoto Kshir VII (Benkei) During the 1930s Ichimura Uzaemon XV played Togashi and Matsumoto Kshir VII played Benkei opposite each other in January 1930, November 1932, January 1933, March 1933, November 1934, December 1934, April 1937, December 1937, March 1938 Film recording of the play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvTBu_bkIEc&feature=fvsr th Staged 15 October 1935 (Shwa 10 10 15 ) at the Kyto Minamiza () Starring () () () () Matsumoto Kshir VIII (at the time Ichikawa Somegor V Later Matsumoto Hakuo I) Onoe Baiko VII Ichikawa Komaz X Ichikawa Somegor V (the Japanese line number for Somegor is not 6 but has to be 5 Kabuki 21) Nakamura Mannosuke Ichikawa Dannosuke Nakamura Kichijr Matsumoto Komagor (later Ichikawa Yaoz IX) Sawamura Sgor Nakamura Kankur (IV? was an unknown actor. However there was no Nakamura Kankur at the beginning of the Shwa era. The only actor to hold this name during the 20th th century was Nakamura Kankur the 6 Kabuki 21)

Ihei Kimura () - Jgosei Ichimura Uzaemon butai shashinsh ( , Photograph collection of the fifteenth-generation Ichimura Uzaemon on the stage). Edited by . Kyoto: Wakei Shoten, 1951. On the kabuki actor Ichimura Uzaemon (18741945). Ninety-six pages of photographs, of which pp. 2168 are credited to Kimura (the remainder are uncredited) Check out matsui shoo 1870-1933 shochikus staff playwright for kabuki tanaka ryo 1884-1974 kabukiza stage designer

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