DECEMBER 1886 




 

               
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Ise no Saburô (伊勢三郎)


Play: Ise no Saburô (伊勢三郎)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1886; 01/1887
Artist: Torii Kiyotada IV (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 4, No. 6 (June 1, 1910)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Danjûrô IX also performed this role in Tokyo in a special
performance at the Inoue Kaoru residence in April 1887, and at  the
Fukano-za in February 1892, and at a special performance at the
Kabuki-za in June 1898.  It is possible that  the print reflects one of
those performances.