BANDÔ MITSUGORÔ IX (坂東三津五郎)
05/14/1929 - 04/01/1999

aka BANDÔ MINOSUKE VII (坂東蓑助)
aka BANDÔ YASOSUKE IV (坂東八十助)
aka BANDÔ MITSUNOBU (坂東光伸)

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Ukiyo Matahei (浮世又平)

Play: Keisei Hangonkô (傾城反魂香)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/87
Print Date: 10/1987
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VI, Six Figures of the Stage]
Dairoku-ki Zenshin Zu Shirîzu Butai Roku Sugata
(第六期全身図シリーズ・舞台六姿)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 
 

               
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Ukiyo Matahei (浮世又平)

Play: Domo Mata (吃又),
Act 3, Scene 1 of Keisei Hangonkô (傾城反魂香)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/87
Print Date: 09/1987
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Personal collection (#135/100)

Note: Mitsugorô IX performed this role as part of his shumei.
 
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Kugeaku (公家悪) [Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)]

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/95
Print Date: 03/1996
Print Title: Kugeaku (Bandô Mitsugorô) (公家悪 (坂東三津五郎))
Artist: Paul Binnie
Medium: Kappazuri print over lithograph
Personal Collection (#4/10)

Note: Version with pink mica
 
 

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Kugeaku (公家悪) [Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)]

Play: Shibaraku (暫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/95
Print Date: 03/1996
Print Title: Kugeaku (Bandô Mitsugorô) (公家悪 (坂東三津五郎))
Artist: Paul Binnie
Medium: Kappazuri print over lithograph
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com
Personal Collection (#5/20)

Note: Version without mica

                   
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Kashima Nyûdô Shinsai (鹿島入道震斎)

Play: Onna Shibaraku (女暫)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/98
Print Date: 05/1998
Artist: Tsuruya Kôkei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Full Length Portraits - Series XII (Design 2)]
Daijûni-ki Zenshin-zu Shirîzu no 2
(第十二期 全身図シリーズの2)
Image courtesy of Tsuruya-koukei.com
 
 

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô IX (坂東三津五郎) as
Shitadashi Sanbaso (舌出三番叟)
           
Play: Shitadashi Sanbasô (舌出三番叟)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 01/1992
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yamamoto Hisashi (山本ひさし)
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
 
Note: Bandô Mitsugorô IX also performed this role at the Misono-za,
Nagoya, in October 1989 and at the Asakusa Kôkaidô in January 1998. 
I can not rule of the possibility that this print reflects one of those other
performances.   If this print depicts Bandô Mitsugorô VIII, he performed
this role at the Kabuki-za, Tokyo, in October 1962.  If this print depicts
Bandô Mitsugorô VII, he performed this role five times between 1947
and 1956.