Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊)
Play: Kumo ni Magou Ueno no Hatsuhana (天衣紛上野初花)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/1881
Print Date: 06/1903
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Series: Ichikawa Danjûrô Engei Hyakuban
(市川団十郎演芸百番)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: This print was issued posthumously. Danjûrô IX
reprised this role at the Kabuki-za in March 1900. He also
played Kôchiyama in an earlier version called Kumo no
Ueno San'e no Sakumae (雲上野三衣策前 at the
Kawarasaki-za in October 1874 and again at the Meiji-za in
October 1895, as well as in a play called Sanpukutsui Ueno
no Fûkei (三幅対上野風景) at the Kabuki-za that opened
on October 28, 1890.