APRIL 1994

Matsumoto Kôshirô IX (松本幸四郎)   
as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶)

Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/94
Print Date: 09-10/1994
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Kanjinchô Benkei (勧進帳弁慶)
Medium: Kappazuri print
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#6/80)
       

                                  
                 Ichikawa Danjûrô XII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
`                Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

                 Play: Kenuki (毛抜), Act III of Narukami Fudô Kitayama Zakura
                 (雷神不動北山櫻) [Act II in modern productions]
                 Performance Place: ?
                 Performance Date: ?
                 Print Date: 04/1994
                 Artist: Paul Binnie
                 Print Title: Kenuki (毛抜)
                 Medium: Kappazuri print
                 Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
                 Personal Collection (#10/80)
                
                 Note: This print would seem to have been based on a special gala
                 performance or a prior broadcast recording of Danjûrô XII's
                 performance.  Danjûrô XII's last regular performance as
                 Kumedera Danjô prior to the creation of this print that I could
                 find was at the Minami-za, Kyoto, in October 1992 before Binnie
                 arrived in Tokyo.  Danjûrô XII also performed the role at the
                 Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1991 and at the Kabuki-za,
                 Tokyo, in September 1990 and, as Ichikawa Ebizô X, at the
                 Kokuritsu Gekijō, Tokyo, in June 1982 and July 1973.

                 
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Play: ?
Performance Place: Kanamaru-za, Kotohira
Performance Dates: April 5-21, 1994
Print Date: 1994
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection

Note: The programs were made up of  Kuzu-no-Ha (葛の葉)
[Act IV of Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑),
Meoto Dôjôji (男女道成寺), Kôjô (口上), Hana no Ueno
Homare no Ishibumi (花上野誉碑), and Modoribashi (戻橋).
It starred Nakamura Shikan VII (中村芝翫), Ichikawa Sadanji
IV (市川左団次; 市川左團次), Sawamura Tôjûrô II
(沢村藤十郎;  澤村藤十郎), Nakamura Hashinosuke III
(中村橋之助), Nakamura Fukusuke IX (中村福助), Ichimura
Kakitsu IX (市村家橘), and Ichikawa Otora VI (市川男寅).