AKI NO WAKARE
(秋の別れ)
DECEMBER 1922
Plays: Muromachi Gosho (室町御所); Aki no Wakare (秋の別れ); Nani Ôshima
Homare no
Tsuyoyumi (名大島功譽強弓); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/22
Print Date: 12/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Nakamura Jakuemon III (中村雀右衛門) as
Yaegaki-hime (八重垣姫) and
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信) in Honchô
Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yoshiteru (義輝), Ichikawa
Sanshô V (市川三升;
市川三舛) as Iwatsuki Suisuke (岩槻主水助), Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as
Ikeda Tango no Kami
Masatake (池田丹後守将武), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Tamon (多門) in
Muromachi Gosho (室町御所); and Bandô Shûchô III (坂東秀調) as
Sadarae (簓江), Ichikawa Chûsha
VII (市川中車) as Chinzei Hachirô Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝), and Kataoka
Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Oni
Yasha (鬼夜叉) in Nani Ôshima Homare no Tsuyoyumi (名大島功譽強弓).