Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄)

YAMAGUCHI SADAO (山口定雄)
? - 10/02/1907

JULY 1892

Wakamiya Manjirô (若宮万治郎) as
[Inspector Ueno Akira]
Keibu Ueno Akira (警部上野明)

Play: Ôjishin Binô Jikki
(大地震美濃日記)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/13/92
Print Date: 07/1892?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theater Museum

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
[ Free Warrior Kunino Takeo]
Jiyû Sôshi-Kunino Takeo
(自由壮士国野武雄)

Sanzô Saitô (斎藤彰一) as
[Fraudster Yamada Sanzô]
Sagi-shi Yamada Sanzô
(詐欺師山田三蔵 )

JULY 1893

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as [Lieutenant Colonel Fukushima]
Fukushima Chûsa (福島中佐)

Play: Fukushima Chûsa (福島中佐)
Performance Place: Fukano-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/05/1893
Print Date: 07/1893
Artist: Adachi Ginko (安達吟光)
Image courtesy of the Tokyo Metropolitan Library

NOVEMBER 1893

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Shigenoi (重の井)

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Shimizu Sadakichi (清水定吉)

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Keisei (傾城)

Play: Shimizu Sadakichi (清水定吉)
Performance Place: Asakusa-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/14/93
Print Date: 1893
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan

Note: Also on the bill was a play called Koinyôbô Somewake Tetsugu (恋女房染分手嗣). It is
possible that one or both of the characters in the inset circles are characters in that play.

UNKNOWN MONTH 1893

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Jiraiya (児雷也)

Play: Jiraiya (児雷也)
Performance Place: Fukano-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1893
Print Date: 1893?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: This appears to be a shingeki
play, not the kabuki version.

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Geisha Hideyoshi (芸妓秀吉)

FEBRUARY 1898

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
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan

AUGUST 1898

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Kumonryû (九紋龍)　　

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Kaoshô (華和尚)　

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?
Artist: Toyohara Kunichika (豊原国周)
Information courtesy of the Tokyo Museum Collection

JUNE 1899

Shirakawa Hirokazu (白川広一) as [Wife Ofuku] Nyôbô Ofuku (女房おふく)

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as Fukutokuya Yumesuke (福徳屋夢助)

Play: Fêtêeru (フェーテール)
Performance Place: ?, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1899?
Print Date: 06/1899
Artist: Utagawa Kokunimasa (歌川小国政)
Image courtesy of the National Theater of Japan

JULY 1900

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Kosan ( 小さん)

Play: Koi no Pisutoru (極恋のピストル)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/1900
Print Date: 06/1900
Artist: Utagawa Kokunimasa (歌川小国政)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
Nomura Torao (野村虎雄 )
'

JANUARY 1902

Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄)
performing the play's prologue

Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/02
Print Date: 12/1901
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the National Theatre
of Japan

Note: The depiction of Horiguchi Hideo
(堀口英雄) in the upper left panel is by
Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広).

     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) [as
     Mongaku Shônin (文覚上人; 文覺上人)?]

     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
     VIII (市川団十郎市川團十郎) as
     Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
     Kanjincho (勧進帳) in the upper left
     panel is by Kuniyuki (国之画)

     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
     Otowa no Rei (おとはの霊) and
     Horiguchi Hideo (堀口英雄)

     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
   VIII (市川団十郎市川團十郎) as
     Kirare Yosaburô (切られ与三郎) in
     Yowa Nasake Ukina no Yokogushi
     (與話情浮名横櫛) in the upper right
     panel is by Mongen Kunigen (?)
     (門人国玄).

     Furukawa Roppa (古川緑波) as
     Kodama (小玉)

     Yamaguchi Sadao (山口定雄) as
     Otowa (おとわ)

     Play: Yakusha Katagi (俳優気質)
     Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
     Performance Date: 01/01/02
     Print Date: 12/1901
     Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
     Image courtesy of the National Theatre
     of Japan

     Note: The depiction of Ichikawa Danjûrô
     VIII (市川団十郎市川團十郎) as Jiraiya
     (児雷也) in Jiraiya Gôketsu Monogatari
     (児雷也豪傑譚語) in the upper left panel
     is by Utagawa Kunihiro (歌川国広).