SUIKODEN YUKI NO DANMARI
(水滸伝雪挑)

aka SUIKODEN DANMARI (水滸伝だんまり)
 

AUGUST 1898

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.
 
 
 
 

                   
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Kumonryu Shishin (九紋龍史進)

Ichikawa Sadanji  I (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as
Kaosho Roshishin (花和尚魯智深)

Play: Suikoden Yuki no Danmari (水滸伝雪挑)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1900
Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)

Note: A color image is not currently available.  Although a
catalog gives the publication date as February 1900, other
known prints in this series were published in February 1902.
These actors appeared in a production at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo
in July 1893.  This print, however, likely reflects a later performance
in Osaka or Kyoto.
 
 
 

                 
Bandô Ikkaku I (坂東一鶴) as
Hanaoshô (花和尚)

Play: Suikoden Yuki no Danmari (水滸傳雪挑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/11
Print Date: 07/1911?
Artist: Yamamoto Kanae (山本鼎)
Series: Sôga Butai Sugata (草画舞台姿), Vol. 2
[Les Feuilles Théâtrales]    
Personal Collection

Note: This print was self-carved by Yamamoto Kanae for members
of the Tokyo Hanga Kurabu Hakko (東京版画倶楽部發行).

Plays: Suikoden Yui no Danmari (水滸伝雪挑闘); Kokoro no Koe ( 心の声); Itarian, Dansu, Ze, Rôzu
(イタリアン、ダンス、ゼ、ローズ); Eshi Jitsuha Kanja (画師実は間者);  Dokushô (独唱); Santarô
(三太郎); [Cakewalk] Kêki Uôku (ケーキウオーク); Kumadori Ataka no Matsu ( 隈取安宅松);
Yûsuzumi Kamo no Kawakaze (夕涼鴨川風)  
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   07/01/11
Print Date: 07/1911?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Musashibo Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶) in
Kumadori Ataka no Matsu ( 隈取安宅松).