ICHIKAWA SADANJI II
(市川左團次; 市川左団次)
10/19/1880 - 02/23/1940
aka ICHIKAWA ENSHÔ II
(市川莚升; 市川莚舛)
aka ICHIKAWA KOYONE I (市川小米)
Ichikawa Sadanji II?
(市川左団次; 市川左團次)
as Umeômaru (梅王丸)
Play: Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami
(菅原傅授手習鑑; 菅原伝授手習鑑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Personal Collection
Note: It is possible
that this print is by
Sadanobu IV and/or
depicts Ichikawa
Sadanji III.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (石橋) as
Soga Gorô Tokimune (曽我五郎時致)
Play: Ya-no-Ne (矢の根)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: This might be part of the Kabuki Kumadori
Shû (歌舞伎隈取集) set. Sadanji II performed
this role at the Kabuki-za in April 1926 and
again
in April 1931. One of those productions
likely
played in Osaka around the same time.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Nangô Rikimaru (南郷力丸)
Play: Benten Musume Meo no
Shiranami (弁天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II first
performed this
role in Tokyo at the
Hongô-za in
June 1915. He would
reprise the role
in Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in
April
1918, October 1925, December
1927,
and February 1934, though
never
opposite Kikugorô. It
is possible that
one of these
productions toured
Osaka.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: Kôshirô VII and
Sadanji II
performed their
respective roles
opposite each other
four times in
Tokyo between March
1925 and
November 1937.
Presumably one of
these productions
toured Osaka.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠彌)
Play: Hanashôbu Keian
Jikki
花菖蒲慶安実記)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II
performed
this role eleven times
in Tokyo
between September 1939
and
October 1938.
Presumably
one of those productions
toured
in Osaka.
Five pochibukuro, possibly reverse sides of some of the actor
pochibukuro shown above: Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎); Kataoka Nizaemon XI or XII (片岡仁左衛門);
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸); Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎);
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed pochibukuro
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Kudô
Suketsune (工藤祐経)
Play:
Kichierei Kotobuki Soga
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1928?
Artist:
Kamishita Chikamine
(神下周峯)
Medium: Woodblock printed
pochibukuro
Series: [Images of Famous Actors
of
Today] Tôsei Meiyû Omokage
Zôshi (當世名優面影双紙) #5
Personal Collection
Note: I can find no record of Sadanji
II
performing this role in Tokyo in
the
1920s. His most immediate
prior performance in this role in
Tokyo was at the IMeiji-za in
January 1918, It is possible that this
piece reflects a performance outside
of
Tokyo. The envelope for Set #5
is
shown in the Chikamine entry for
January 1928.
,
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)
as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
Yowa Nasake Ukina no
Yokogushi (與話情浮名横櫛)
and similar plays
Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門)
as
Onhahakô Yodo no Kata (淀の方)
[Yodogimi (淀君)] in
Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu
(沓手鳥孤城落月) and
similar plays
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門) in
Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Ichikawa Chûsha VII
(市川中車) as
Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正) in
Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎)
as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)
in
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Idahachi (伊太八) in Onoe
Idahachi (尾上伊太八)
Onoe Kikugorô VI
(尾上菊五郎) as Yayoi (弥生) in
Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子) and
similar plays
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kijô
(鬼女) in
Modoribashi (戻橋)
Nakamura Kichiemon I
(中村吉右衛門) as
Ishikiri Kajiwara (石切梶原) in
Kajiwara Heizô Homare no
Ishikiri (梶原平三誉石切)
Title: Dozô no
Rakugaki (土蔵のらくがき)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Natori Shunsen
(名取春仙)
Note: Sadanji II performed
this role at the Meiji-za in
September 1918 and May 1921,
at the Kabuki-za in
November 1925, and at the
Tokyo Gekijô in January
1933 and May 1936.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左團次;市川左団次) as
Soga Gorô (曽我五郎)
Play:
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Shimizu Miezô (清水三重三)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: If this depicts Sadanji II in Ya-no-Ne
(矢の根), he performed that role at the Kabuki-za
in Tokyo in April 1916.
[Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門)?] as
Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎); [Nakamura
Fukusuke V (中村福助)?] as Oschichi (お七);
[Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎)?] as Naojirô
(直次郎); [Onoe Eizaburô VII (尾上栄三郎;
尾上榮三郎)?] as Osono (お里); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)) as
Ono no Sadakurô (斧定九郎); [Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次)?] as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠弥)
Print Date: c. 1920s
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)?
Note: This set of uncut prints is not signed but
stylistically resembles prints and paintings made
by Shikô in the 1920s. See, for example, Shikô's
1924 print of Sadanji as Chûya.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Ikeda Tango (池田丹後)
Play: Muromachi Gosho (室町御所)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Shiko (田中紫光)
Medium: Lithograph?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: During the time when Shikô is known to have been
actively designing prints, Sadanji II performed this role in
Tokyo at the Teikoku Geikijō in December 1922, at the
Asakusa Shôchiku- za in May 1924, and at the Meiji-za in
February 1929. However, it is possible that this pint
reflects a
regional performance.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Koremochi (維茂)
Play: Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eisho (吉田永昇)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II performed this role
four times in Tokyo between September
1906 and September 1925.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Inagawa (稲川)
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eisho (吉田永昇)
Medium: woodblock printed
senshafuda
Series: Tokiwazu Awase Mokuroku
(常盤津合せ目録)
Personal Collection
Note: There is a character called
Inagawa in the play Sekitori Senryô
Nobori (関取千両幟) but I have been
able to find a record of Sadanji II
performing that role.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Yoshida Eisho (吉田永昇)
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: During the Taishô era when
Eishô was active as a print designer,
Sadanji II performed this role six
times between April 1914 and
February 1926.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門)
Play: Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura
(博多小女郎浪枕)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II performed this role in
Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in October 1914,
at the Meiji-za in November 1920, and at
the Kabuki-za in December 1928.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II performed this role in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in November
1918 and April 1921, at the Hongô-
za in December 1924, and at the
Meij-za in May 1931.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kikuchi Hankurô (菊地半九郎)
Play: Toribeyama Shinjû (鳥辺山心中)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: Sadanji II performed this role
nine times in Tokyo between
September 1915 and January 1935.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as Inuta Kobungo
Yasuyori (犬田小文吾悌順)
Play: Nansô Satomi Hakkenden
(南総里見八犬傳)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Series: [Eight Dog Heroes by Famous
Actors] Meiyu Hakkenden (名優八犬傳)
Personal Collection
Note: This is a mitate-e.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Chûya (忠弥)
Play: Marubashi Chûya
(丸橋忠弥; 丸橋忠彌)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
matchbook cover
Note: Sandanji II first
performed this role at
the
Meiji-za in September 1906.
His final performance in
Tokyo was at the Tokyo
Gekijô
in October 1938.
Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Sadakurô (定九郎)
Play: Kanadehon
Chûshingura
(假名手本忠臣蔵;
仮名手本忠臣蔵)
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock
printed
matchbook cover
Note: Sadanji II performed this
role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in
November 1918 and April
1921,
at the Hongo-za in December
1924, and at the Meiji-za in
May
1931.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次;
市川左團次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳)
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed senshafuda
Personal Collection
Note: This is an extremely large
senshafuda, over 30 inches long.
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠彌)
Play: Marubashi Chûya (丸橋忠彌)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kisan (璣山)