Ebizo as Musashi with Uchiyama Rina as Akemi (scan by bmwracer):
Ichikawa Ebizo XI (Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII)
Started by Betsy Hayashi · 13 Oct 2004 · 1,490 replies
Artiste Discussion
Yamaki CM (to watch the CM: www.yamaki.co.jp/cm/index.html):
Cover of Engeki Magazine, with Ebizo as Prince Hikaru Genji ("Genji Monogatari):
Pic from the site www.e-fukuoka.co.jp:
Promotional poster of his name changing ceremony at Misono-za in Fukuoka, witch took place in July:
Another Engeki Magazine cover:
:woot: hiii :) Thank you for this gallery ^^
Suna wrote::woot: hiii :) Thank you for this gallery ^^
Hiiii Suna !!!!!! Welcome !!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the visit !!!!!! :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:
Keep on visitin' the gallery, I put new pics of Ebi-sama everyday !!!!!! :mrgreen:
Ebizo and his beautiful smile :mrgreen: in one of the events to promote his name changing performances:
Ebizo (right) and his father Danjuro (left) in the play "Ren-jishi" (pic from Théatre National de Chaillot web site):
Ebizo (left) and Danjuro (right) again in the play "Ren-jishi":
More "Ren-jishi" - Ebizo is the one with the red whig. His father Danjuro is the one with the white whig:
Ebizo as Musashi:
Ebizo (Musashi) with Nakamura Tamao (Osugi, at right) and Yonekura Ryoko (Otsu, at left):
Searching for Ebizo in the net, I've found this beautiful review of his performance in Paris, written by Suna, that watched the plays. The original version of this review (in French) can be read at http://tchenrezi.joueb.com/news/128.shtml (sorry for this translation, but you know how Yahoo translator works ...):
"Yesterday, 19h I am in front of the palate of Chaillot,
seeking my pupil of the eyes.
He arrives calmly at 19h20 whereas I had died of concern,
lend to return in the room without awaiting it.
He approaches very close to me to say to me hello, He smells alcohol.
a last glance with the people who wait outside
that one wants to sell a place well to them...
I hear the end of a negotiation "80 euros Madam...
I NE will not go down below... "
And one enters.
The crammed room, one realizes that we will not be
not at side during the spectacle. I blow internally, relieved.
Delighted to avoid its avinée breath whispering me without slackening its comments.
-----(My note: Suna is talkin' about one of the spectators, who wasn't much interested in the performance - :beatyou: - and was tryin' to sell his ticket).
The curtain quivers, one feels agitation behind fabric.
It opens.
And there...
Feery.
Amazement.
The beauty sumptuous, pure, the precise gesture.
The invaluable femininity of the onnagata (the female character, played by a man).
The powerful voice of Ebizô which makes quiver the room.
First part: Toribe yama shinjû
(double suicide with the mount toribe)
The onnagata fascine by its invaluable and elegant gestures.
The fabrics bruissent gently.
Then Ebizo returns in scene.
- Applause -
I am still amazed by his presence, his charisma, its will have.
By looking at it I thought that undoubtedly never I will not re-examine that.
The actor more endowed with the history of Kabuki.
Who will exceed his grandfather, and his father.
I observed his hands, his eyes posed. Precision of its glance,
the apparent ease of the samurai who drinks then deadens, drunk...
What marked me, be a precise scene
second table in the "double suicide with the Toribe mount".
This scene where Hankuro - before dying -
to the river will seek water for Osome.
One sees water, one sees it falling from his fingers, lorqu' it escapes to him...
Then, it tears off a side of its kimono to soak it in water,
then the fabric carries delicately to the mouth of Osome.
However on scene, the river does not exist more than the moon which shone
on this sky of night at the bottom of the room.
It is not théatre, not MIME either it is still other thing.
It saw what it plays, It looked at each drop escaping from its white fingers.
And us also...
Then the ceremony came from succession to the prestigious name of Ebizô.
Homages for new Ebizo
(of which some French sentences, who conquered the public)
And came the narami, the intense glance which impressione by its force.
Then famous Kagami jishi (see photographs) where the two characters are played by the same actor, first of all gracious young woman, then a virile lion.
To the end of the spectacle, (in addition to the fact that he wanted to leave to the first entracte, the idiot), I realized that my pupil had not noticed the intéret the artistic main thing of this part...
Namely that Ebizo played the role female one, then the role of the virile and quarrelsome lion.
I will explain the next time to him.
I did not want to decentralize my spirit of this beauty
that I had just seen.
While returning at home I sought an adjective to qualify what I had just seen... and I never found it."
"Yesterday, 19h I am in front of the palate of Chaillot,
seeking my pupil of the eyes.
He arrives calmly at 19h20 whereas I had died of concern,
lend to return in the room without awaiting it.
He approaches very close to me to say to me hello, He smells alcohol.
a last glance with the people who wait outside
that one wants to sell a place well to them...
I hear the end of a negotiation "80 euros Madam...
I NE will not go down below... "
And one enters.
The crammed room, one realizes that we will not be
not at side during the spectacle. I blow internally, relieved.
Delighted to avoid its avinée breath whispering me without slackening its comments.
-----(My note: Suna is talkin' about one of the spectators, who wasn't much interested in the performance - :beatyou: - and was tryin' to sell his ticket).
The curtain quivers, one feels agitation behind fabric.
It opens.
And there...
Feery.
Amazement.
The beauty sumptuous, pure, the precise gesture.
The invaluable femininity of the onnagata (the female character, played by a man).
The powerful voice of Ebizô which makes quiver the room.
First part: Toribe yama shinjû
(double suicide with the mount toribe)
The onnagata fascine by its invaluable and elegant gestures.
The fabrics bruissent gently.
Then Ebizo returns in scene.
- Applause -
I am still amazed by his presence, his charisma, its will have.
By looking at it I thought that undoubtedly never I will not re-examine that.
The actor more endowed with the history of Kabuki.
Who will exceed his grandfather, and his father.
I observed his hands, his eyes posed. Precision of its glance,
the apparent ease of the samurai who drinks then deadens, drunk...
What marked me, be a precise scene
second table in the "double suicide with the Toribe mount".
This scene where Hankuro - before dying -
to the river will seek water for Osome.
One sees water, one sees it falling from his fingers, lorqu' it escapes to him...
Then, it tears off a side of its kimono to soak it in water,
then the fabric carries delicately to the mouth of Osome.
However on scene, the river does not exist more than the moon which shone
on this sky of night at the bottom of the room.
It is not théatre, not MIME either it is still other thing.
It saw what it plays, It looked at each drop escaping from its white fingers.
And us also...
Then the ceremony came from succession to the prestigious name of Ebizô.
Homages for new Ebizo
(of which some French sentences, who conquered the public)
And came the narami, the intense glance which impressione by its force.
Then famous Kagami jishi (see photographs) where the two characters are played by the same actor, first of all gracious young woman, then a virile lion.
To the end of the spectacle, (in addition to the fact that he wanted to leave to the first entracte, the idiot), I realized that my pupil had not noticed the intéret the artistic main thing of this part...
Namely that Ebizo played the role female one, then the role of the virile and quarrelsome lion.
I will explain the next time to him.
I did not want to decentralize my spirit of this beauty
that I had just seen.
While returning at home I sought an adjective to qualify what I had just seen... and I never found it."
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Ebizo as Musashi and Tsutsumi Shinichi (Matahachi) in another recap by bmwracer:
More Ebizo as Musashi:
A pic from Yamaki's web site:
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