Kataoka Gadō II (二代目片岡我童: from 1837 to 12/1856) (actor 1810 – 1863)
Kataoka Nizaemon VIII (八代目片岡仁左衛門: from 1/1857 to 2/16/1863)Kataoka Gatō I (初代片岡我當: from 1833 to 1/1837)
Arashi Kitsujirō (嵐橘次郎: an early stage name until 1833)
Ichikawa Shinnosuke (市川新之助: a very early name given to him by Ichikawa Danjūrō VIII)
Kataoka Roen I (poetry name - 初代片岡 芦燕)
Mimasu Iwagorō (a youthful stage name - 三枡岩五郎)
Ridō (poetry name - 李童)
Gadō (poetry name - 我童)
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Biography:
This actor held this name from 1/1839 to 12/1856 and then again from 10/1862 to 2/1863. He was adopted by both by Kataoka Nizaemon VII (1755-1837) and Ichikawa Danjūrō VII (1791-1859). His brothers were Mimasu Inemaru I (1834-58) and Kataoka Ichizō III (1851-1906).
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Osaka Prints says of this actor: "Kataoka Gadô II (二代目片岡我童), 1810-1863, performed in Kamigata under a series of names. The first three names were used prior to 1833: Ichikawa Shinnosuke (held while under the tutlege of the Edo superstar and adoptive father Ichikawa Danjûrô VII); Mimasu Iwagorô (used after quarreling with Danjûrô VII and leaving the Ichikawa family); and Arashi Kitsujirô (used after becoming a disciple of the Kamigata star Arashi Rikan II). Then in 1833, he took the name Kataoka Gatô I (after being adopted by Kataoka Nizaemon VII, whose haimyô or poetry name was Gatô). In 1839 he became Kataoka Gadô II (Gadô was another haimyô used by Kataoka Nizaemon VII), and finally, in 1857, he ascended to the name Kataoka Nizaemon VIII (his mentor having died 20 years earlier, the name lineage had remained unclaimed). In his final time on the stage, he reverted to Gadô II (10/1862 to 2/1862)."
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This actor was portrayed in prints by Sadamasu in 1839 and ca. 1848, Hasegawa Sadanobu I in 1841 and 1850, Toyohide in 1841, Sadahiro in 1842, Shūshō in 1847, Sadayoshi in 1848, Hirosada in 1848-1849 and 1851-1853, Shigeharu in ca. 1849, Kunisato in 1852, Munehiro 1853, Kuniyoshi in 1853-1854, Kunisada/Toyokuni III in 1854-1857, Kunisada II in 1856, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi in 1860, Kunikazu in 1861 and 1864 (the year after the actor died), Yoshitaki in 1862, Yoshiyuki in 1862 and Hironobu I in 1863.
Prints of this actor are included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Hankyu Cultural Foundation, Waseda University Library, the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Jordan Schnitzler Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon, the National Gallery, Prague, the Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Ritsumeikan University, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Birmingham (Alabama) Museum of Art, the National Museum of Asian Art, the Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Walters Museum of Art, the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Japanese History, the Ako City Museum, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, the Sainsbury Museum at the University of East Anglia, the Krannert Museum of Art at the University of Illinois, the Museum for Kunst and Gewerbe Hamburg, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Library.