OCTOBER 1898

                   
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)

Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Mukan Tayû Atsumori (無官太夫敦盛)

Play:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1902
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Image courtesy of the Ritsumeikan ARC Collection
 
Note: These actors appeared in a production at the Kabuki-za
in Tokyo in October 1898.  This print, however, likely reflects a
later performance in Osaka or Kyoto.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as
Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実)

Play: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一の谷嫩軍記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1898
Print Date: 1903
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: This memorial print Danjûrô IX was issued posthumously..  It is based on a Kunichika triptych showing
Danjûrô IX and a second actor (omitted in the shin-e) in an October 1898 performance.
 
 
 

               
Onoe Kikugorô V as Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)
 
Ichikawa Danjurô IX as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門)
 
Play:  Fuwa (不破)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1898
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 3, No. 7 (June 15, 1909)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: A color version of this image is not available at this time.  Danjurô IX and Kikugorô V also
performed these roles at the Chitose-za in Tokyo in December 1888.