MAY 1896 

               
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as Sukeroku (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/30/96
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 4, No. 3 (Mar. 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Danjûrô IX also performed this role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
za in May 1884.  It is possible that this print reflects that performance.
 

               
[Danjûrô IX] as Sukeroku by himself]
Kyūdaime Danjûrô no Mizu Iri no Sukeroku
(九代目團十郎の水入の助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/30/96
Artist: Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 6, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Danjûrô IX also performed this role in Tokyo at the Shintomi-
za in May 1884.  It is possible that this print reflects that performance.
 

               
Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Agemaki (揚巻)
 
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as Sukeroku (助六) 
 
Nakamura Shikan IV (中村芝翫) as Ikyû (意休)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura (助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/30/1896
Print Date: 05/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 9, No. 5 (May 1, 1915)
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