SEGAWA KIKUNOJÔ I
Segawa Kikunojô I portraying Mizue Gozen (1740~1745)

Segawa Kikunojô I playing the role of the courtesan Katsuragi in the drama "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya", which was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1731 at the Nakamuraza

Segawa Kikunojô I playing the role of the celestial creature Hagoromo in the drama "Hagoromo Kotobuki Soga", staged in the 1st lunar month of 1745 at the Nakamuraza

Segawa Kikunojô I playing the role of the courtesan Katsuragi in the drama "Keisei Fukubiki Nagoya", which was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1731 at the Nakamuraza

The actor Segawa Kikunojô I in an illustration from the 1st volume of the book "Sangoku Rôei Kyôbutai" (1731)
Courtesy of the Main Library, Kyôto University - Sangoku Rôei Kyôbutai
Image slightly edited by Shôriya Aragorô (reuse rules)

The Kabuki actors Ogino Izaburô I (top/right) as Godai no Saburô and Segawa Kikunojô I (bottom/left) as Ono no Komachi
Artist: Torii Kiyonobu II
Date: 1733-1738 (circa)
Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum

Anegawa Shinshirô I (top/1st from left), Yashio Ikuemon (top/2nd from left), Segawa Kikunojô I (top/1st from right), Segawa Kikujirô I (bottom/1st from left), Segawa Kikunojô I (bottom/2nd from left) and Segawa Kikujirô I (bottom/1st from right) playing the roles of the wakatô Shinpei, Hikita Sadaemon (or Jôemon?), the mekake Azuma no Uraha, the koshimoto Fujinami, the mekake Azuma no Uraha and the koshimoto Fujinami in the kaomise drama "Yamato Uta Kamiyo no Kagami", which was staged in Kyôto in the 11th lunar month of 1737

Onoe Kikugorô I (left/bottom) and Segawa Kikunojô I (right/top) playing the roles of Kichisaburô and Yaoya Oshichi in the new year drama "Nanakusa Wakayagi Soga", which was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1744 at the Ichimuraza

The Actors Segawa Kikunojô I as Ochiyo and Nakamura Shichisaburô II as Hanbei in the play “Higashiyama Gojitsu Yaoya Hanbei,” performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eighth month, 1744
Artist: Torii Kiyonobu II
Date: 1744
The Art Institute of Chicago (print in the public domain)

The actor Segawa Kikunojô I playing the role of a courtesan reading a love letter (print made by Ishikawa Toyonobu)

 
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