YAKUSHA KATAGI
(俳優気質)

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).
 
  
 
 

? as ? (possibly Mongaku Shônin
(文覚上人; 文覺上人))

Play: ? (possibly Yakusha Katagi
(俳優気質) or Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku
(那智滝祈誓文覚))
Performance Place:?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
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