ICHIKAWA DANJÛRÔ VII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎)
1791 - 04/25/1859

aka ICHIKAWA EBIZÔ V (市川海老蔵)
aka ICHIKAWA HAKUEN II (市川白猿)
aka ICHIKAWA SHINNOSUKE I (市川新之助)

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Sano Jirōzaemon (佐野次郎左衛門)

Play: Kakitsubata Iro mo Edozome (杜若艶色紫)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/11/1815
Print Date: 05-06/2006
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: [Kunisada's Danjûrô]
Kunisada no Danjûrô (国貞の團十郎)
Series: [A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo]
Edo Sumi Hyaku Shoku (江戸墨百色)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#19/100)

Note:  The tattoo of Danjûrô VII is based on an 1815 print
by Utagawa Kunisada I.   The cartouche depicts Danjûrô
VII in one of his signature roles as Kamakura Gongorô
Kagemasa (鎌倉権五郎景政) in Shibaraku (暫), also
based on a print by Kunisada I.

 
 
 OCTOBER 1849

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Sano Jirōzaemon (佐野次郎左衛門)

Play: Kakitsubata Iro mo Edozome (杜若艶色紫)
Performance Place: Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  05/11/1815
Print Date: 2006
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: [Kunisada's Danjûrô]
Kunisada no Danjûrô (国貞の團十郎)
Series: [A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo]
Edo Sumi Hyaku Shoku (江戸墨百色)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection

Note:  See the note to the previous entry.  This test proof color variant
includes the bloody print from the tattoo-less companion print "Katana
(刀)."

 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 1]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 1
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/

Note:  Although Ligustro has indicated that he based these design
on a Sharaku print, it is actually based on a print by Utagawa
Hirosada (小西 廣貞).
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 2]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 2
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 3]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 3
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 4]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 4
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海 )
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 5]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 5
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海 )
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 6]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 6
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 7]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 7
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 8]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 8
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 9]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 9
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 10]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 10
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 11]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 11
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/
 

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô V (市川海老蔵) as
Denkai (傳戒?)

Play: Nichiren Shônin Minori no Umi (日蓮上人御法海)
Performance Place: Takeda-za, Osaka
Performance Date: 10/1849
Print Date: 1992 (ed. 1/1; 11 additional variants)
Artist: Ligustro
Print Title: [Print Tribute to the Danjûrô Actors of Kabuki Variant 12]
Stampa Omaggio agli attori Danjūrō del Kabuki variante 12
Image courtesy of http://www.ligustro.it/