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...
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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...
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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...
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and the Brooklyn Museum. Onoe Kikugorō VI as Hayano Kampei, 1929 Ichikawa Sadanji II as Narukami, 1926 Nakamura Kichiemon I as Akechi Mitsuhide, 1926...
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During their European tour Japanese playwright Matsui Shōyō and actor Ichikawa Sadanji II saw the Dury Lane production. They were greatly impressed. Shōyō...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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XIII Ichikawa Jūkai III Ichikawa Kodanji IV Ichikawa Sadanji I Ichikawa Sadanji III Ichikawa Sadanji IV Ichikawa Udanji III Ichimura Uzaemon XV Ichimura Uzaemon...
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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...
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