Gendai Budai Geika

Biography of Ota Masamitsu

Series "Gendai Budai Geika" (Figures of the Modern Stage)

1. Ichikawa Ebizo IX as Sukeroku in "Sukeroku Yukari Edo Zakura" (Sukeroku, flower of Edo)

2. Nakamura Utaemon V as Courtesan Yatsuhashi in "Kagotsurube Sato no Eizame" (Kagotsurube, The Haunted Sword)

3. Ichikawa Jukai III as Shirai Gonpachi in "Ukiyozuka Hioku no Inazuma" (The floating world pattern and matching Lighting Bolts)

4. Mizutani Yaeko as Madame Butterfly in "Madame Butterfly"

5. Nakamura Kichiemon as Ichijo Okura Kyo in "Ichijô Ôkura Monogatari" (The tale of Ichijô Ôkura)

6. Matsumoto Koshiro VIII as Matsuomaru in "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami" (Sugawara and the Secret of Calligraphy)

7. Nakamura Tokizo III as Shizuka Gozen in “Yoshitsune senbon zakura" (Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees)

8. Onoe Baiko VII as Fujitsubo in "Genji Monogatari" (The tale of Genji)

9. Ichikawa Sadanji III as Oboshi Yuranosuke in "Kanadehon Chushingura" (The revenge of the 47 ronin)

10. Nakamura Kanzaburo XVII as Miura no Suke in “Kamakura Sandaiki" (Chronicle of Three Generations in Kamakura).

11. Hanayagi Shotaro as Taki no Shiraito in "Taki no Shiraito" (The white thread of the waterfall or The Water Magician)

12. Onoe Shoroku II as the villain Danshichi in "Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami" (Summer Festival, Mirror of Osaka).

Note: The names have been transcribed using the traditional Japanese order, family name first, followed by surname.

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