1898

FEBRUARY

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口 定雄) as [Woman] Onna Maizuru (女舞鶴)
 
Play: [Wada Battle Woman Maizuru] Wada Gassen Onna Maizuru (和田合戦女舞鶴)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/98
Print Date: 02/12/98
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan
 
 
 
 

AUGUST

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Hanaoshô (花和尚)　
 
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰)  as Kyûmonryû (九紋龍)　　
 
Play: [Water Margin] Suikoden Danmari (水滸伝だんまり)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/29/98
Print Date: 08/1898?
Artists: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周); Inoue Yasuji (井上安治)
Image courtesy of Adam's Auctioneers
 
Note: This print was a collaboration between Kunichika and Yasuji, with Kunichika designing the
figures and Yasuji designing the background.  It is also a reprinted version of an 1886 triptych that
had originally featured Sadanji I and Danjuro IX as Hanaosho and Kyûmonryû, respectively.   The
actors' cartouche was recarved to reflect the actors appearing in the new production.  Yasuji had
been dead for nine years at the time that this version was published.
 
 
 
 

OCTOBER

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
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.