BANDÔ MITSUGORÔ VIII (坂東三津五郎)
10/19/06 - 01/16/75

aka BANDÔ MINOSUKE VI (坂東蓑助)
aka BANDÔ YASOSUKE III (坂東八十助)

                   
Bandô Minosuke VI (坂東簑助; 坂東蓑助; 坂東衰助) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

Play:  Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/53
Print Date: 11/1953
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
 
 

                 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII, VIII, or 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.