Late Ichikawa Sadanji [I] (故市川左團次) as
Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1898
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 4, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Sadanji I also performed this role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
za in January 1881 (alternating the role with four other actors), and
in a special performance at the Inoue Kaoru residence in April 1887.