Kabuki Woogie is devoted to a variety of kabuki-related
subjects. It began with a series of essays, including photos and videos, of a
research trip to Japan in 2010, subsequently added my 25-chapter history of the
first Kabuki-za, and then began a series of covers of and selected photos from
Japanese books about kabuki from my collection. The current posting continues
that series.
Kabuki Woogie also posts monthly covers of the kabuki
magazine ENGEKIKAI, with details on their contents, and, when available, essays
by guest contributors, including papers delivered at conferences and the like.
One can poke around in its archives to find past posts.
The present posting shows the English-titled Passion, a soft-cover, coffee-table book, published in 1997 by NHK, devoted mainly to photos of Ichikawa Ennosuke III (later Ichikawa En’ō
II) during his heyday, when he was the artistic director of the pathbreaking
troupe, Nijūichiseiki
Kabuki Gumi (Twenty-First Century Kabuki Group), which is famous for producing
spectacular productions called Super Kabuki. Ennosuke suffered a stroke in 2003
and his stage appearances since have been very limited. Ennosuke III took the
name En’ō II in 2012, and his nephew, Ichikawa Kamejirō II, became Ennosuke IV. The captions refer to the star as Ennosuke III, his former name.
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| Table of Contents |
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| Ennosuke III as the Emperor in Kaguya, 1996, at the Shinbashi Enbujō, Tokyo. |
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| 哀国林, one of several Chinese actors who appeared with Ennosuke in his Super Kabuki,
Ryūō (The Dragon King), at the Shinbashi Enbujō, March 1989. Ennosuke was very interested in combining the conventions of kabuki with those of jingju. |
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| Ennosuke III as the earth spider in Shitennō Momiji no Edo Guma, at the Kokuritsu Gekijō, March 1995. |
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| Publication page for Passion. |
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