The truth is that after renaming himself from Shinshichi KAWATAKE II (the Second) to Mokuami in 1881, the name Mokuami alone was recorded in official documents such as banzuke (literally, ranking lists, which referred to kabuki playbills), and he did not call himself KAWATAKE.
明治14年（1881年）に二代目河竹新七を黙阿弥と改めてからは、番付類にはただ黙阿弥とのみ記し、河竹とは名乗っていない。