kabuki actor, and had only been apprenticed (to an actor known as Ichikawa Sadanji II) because of Kudanji's own strong desire to enter the world of kabuki...

debuted in February 1916 at the Hongō-za theater, starring Ichikawa Sadanji II and Ichikawa Shōchō II in the roles of Lord Harima and Okiku. It was a modern...

of 1848 at Osaka's Kado Theatre. The print on the right is of the actor Ichikawa Ebizō as Uji Hyōbu-no-suke (宇治兵部助)(also Uji Jōetsu (宇治常悦)), a fictionalized...

and the Brooklyn Museum. Onoe Kikugorō VI as Hayano Kampei, 1929 Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami, 1926 Nakamura Kichiemon I as Akechi Mitsuhide, 1926...

During their European tour Japanese playwright Matsui Shōyō and actor Ichikawa Sadanji II saw the Dury Lane production. They were greatly impressed. Shōyō...

Foreign Affairs, along with the celebrated actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Sadanji I, in April 1887. Two years later, in November 1889, he became zagashira...

famous and celebrated of the Meiji period, along with Ichikawa Danjūrō IX and Ichikawa Sadanji I. Unlike most kabuki actors, who specialize in a particular...

Stalin's approval (and a Stalin Prize), but the sequel, Ivan the Terrible, Part II, was criticized by various authorities and went unreleased until 1958. All...

XIII Ichikawa Jūkai III Ichikawa Kodanji IV Ichikawa Sadanji I Ichikawa Sadanji III Ichikawa Sadanji IV Ichikawa Udanji III Ichimura Uzaemon XV Ichimura Uzaemon...

1906. In 1909, Osanai founded the Free Theater (Jiyū Gekijō) with Ichikawa Sadanji II and staged translations of Ibsen, Chekov, and Gorky, but there he...