ICHIKAWA DANJÛRÔ XI (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎)
01/06/1909 - 11/10/1965

  aka ICHIKAWA EBIZÔ IX (市川海老蔵)

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Sagami Gorō (相模五郎)?
 
Onoe Shôroku II (市川松緑) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Tôkyō Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1948
Print Date: 02/1948?
Artist: Ueno Tadamasa (上野忠雅)
Series: Tô Kyôgen Kabuki Nishikie (当狂言歌舞伎錦絵)
Image courtesy of a Private Collector
 
 

Nakamura Shikan VI (中村芝翫) as
Takiyasha-hime ( 瀧夜又姫)
 
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Ôya no Tarô Mitsukuni (大宅太郎光國)
           
Play: Shinobi Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜戀曲者)
Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/1948
Print Date: 07/1948?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
Personal Collection

           
            Ôtani Tomoemon VII (大谷友右衛門) as
            Izayoi (十六夜)
 
            Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Seishin (清心)
           
            Play: Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui (花街模様薊色縫)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/1948
            Print Date: 07/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
            Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
            Personal Collection

            
            Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as Seishin (清心)
            Ôtani Tomoemon VII as Izayoi (十六夜)
 
            Kataoka Ichizô V (片岡市蔵) as
            Ôdera Shôbei (大寺正兵衛)
           
            Play: Sato Moyô Azami no Ironui (花街模様薊色縫)
            Performance Place: Mitsukoshi Gekijô, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 07/1948
            Print Date: 07/1948?
            Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
            Series: Shichigatsu Kyôgen Mitsukoshi Gekijô
            Hanga Ko-Shû (七月狂言 三越劇場 板画小集))
            Medium: Woodblock print with hand-applied color
            on verso
            Personal Collection

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Nuregami Chôgorô (濡髪長五郎)
           
Play: Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記)
Performance Place: Tokyo Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/1950
Print Date: 01/1950?
Artist: Sasajima Kihei (笹島喜平)
Medium: Colored woodblock print, likely with
hand-applied color on verso
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note:  Ebizô IX previously performed this role at the Tokyo
Gekijô in January 1947.  I cannot rule out the possibility that
this print reflects that earlier performance.

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/1951
Print Date: 1952
Artist: Ota Gako (太田雅光)
Series: Shôwa Butai Sugata (昭和舞台姿 その一) (#2)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ebizô IX first played the role of Moritsune in this
play in Tokyo at the Mitsukoshi Gekijô in October 1948,
and it is possible that Gakô based this print on that  performance.

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Yoemon (与右衛門)

Play: Kinegawa Tsutsumi (木下川堤) scene of
Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/1951
Print Date: 09/1951
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shinpan Butai no Sugata-e
[New Version of Figures on the Stage]
(新版舞台之姿絵)
*Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/1952
Print Date: 1954
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Shin Yakusha-e [New Actor Prictures] (新役者絵)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Inuyama Dôsetsu Tadatomo (犬山道節忠友 )

Play:  Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南総里見八犬伝)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Toyko
Performance Date: 01/02/53
Print Date: 01/1953?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku (花川戸助六)

Play:  Sukeroku Yukari No Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸櫻; 助六由縁江戸桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/53
Print Date: 03/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
 
    

                 
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku  (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/53
Print Date: 01/1954
Artist: Ota Gako (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#1)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Ebizô IX first played the role of Sukeroku in this play
in Tokyo at the Tokyo Gekijô in June 1946.  Although
Ebizô IX's final Tokyo appearance in this role was in March
1953, it is possible that Gakô based this print on one of
Ebizô IX's prior performances.  This design was reissued to
commemorate his shumei at the Kabuki-za in April and May 1962.
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)

Play:  Kanjinchô (勧進帳; 勸進帳)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/54
Print Date:  03/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
 
  

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Matsuômaru (松王丸)

Play: Terakoya ( 寺子屋), Act IV, Scene 3 of
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/05/55
Print Date: 12/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: A similar but more detailed version of this
design is shown in the 2002 and 1991 Shunsen
catalogs (and appears to be a painting, not hanga-genga).
  

                   
Onoe Shôroku II (尾上松緑) as
Kômori Yasu Gorô (蝙蝠安五郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 11/1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

                   
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Otomi of Genyadana (玄治店のお富)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 1956
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Yosaburô of Genyadana (玄治店の与三郎)

Play:  Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1955
Print Date: 01/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Image courtesy of the Floating World Gallery

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Hayano Kanpei (早野勘平)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/04/1955
Print Date: 11/1955
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: Ebizô IX would subsequently perform the
role at the Kabuki-za in December 1955, a
month after this print was made.  It is possible that
the print was conceived in anticipation of that
performance.  Shunsen previously made a print of
Ebizô IX in this role in 1954, based on a
performance at the Meiji-za in December 1952.

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Ishinoue no Fumimaro (石ノ上ノ文麻呂)

Play:  Nayotake (なよたけ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/03/56
Print Date: 01/1957
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Yamanaya Tokijirô (山名屋時次郎)

Play: [Akegarasu Yume no Awayuki (明烏夢泡雪)]
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1957?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: I can find no record of Ebizô IX playing a
character called Tokijirô in Tokyo.  A similar but
more detailed version of this design is shown in
the 2002 (bearing a 1957 date) and 1991
Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a painting,
not hanga-genga).  It is possible that the actual
date of this print is earlier than 1957.

                   
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Kudô Suketsune (工藤祐経)

Ichikawa Ebizô IX (市川海老蔵) as
Gorô Tokimune (五郎時致)
 
Onoe Baikô VII (尾上梅幸) as
Jûrô Sukenari (十郎祐成)

Play:  ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: New Year 1959
Medium: Hand-colored keyblock print (版画源画)
Personal Collection

Note: This depicts a Soga brothers play such as
Soga no Taimen (曾我対面).  However, I have
not found an instance where all three actors
appeared in Tokyo in these specific roles at the
same time.  A similar but more detailed version
of this design is shown in the 2002 and 1991
Shunsen catalogs (and appears to be a painting).
 
 
 
 

                 
Ichikawa Danjûrô XI (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Hanakawado Sukeroku  (助六)

Play: Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura
(助六由縁江戸桜; 助六所縁江戸櫻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/62; 05/**/62
Print Date: 1962?
Artist: Ota Gako (太田雅光)
Personal Collection

Note: This print is a reissue of the 1954 Ota print of the same actor
(under his prior name of Ichikawa Ebizô IX) in the same role at the
Kabuki-za in March 1953.  It appears designed to commemorate his
two month shûmei at the Kabuki-za in 1962.  He reprised the role at
the Kabuki-za in October 1964.
 
                 

                   
Ichikawa Danjuro XI (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Sasaki Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱)

Play: Moritsuna Jin’ya (盛綱陣屋), Act VIII of
Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/1962
Print Date: c. 1970s
Artist: Hasegawa Noboru (長谷川昇)
Personal Collection (#16/100)