AZUMA ODORI
(吾妻踊)

                 
 
Plays: Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山舊錦繪); Kanjinchô (勧進帳); Azuma Odori (吾妻踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/14
Print Date: 04/1914?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Chûrô Onoe (中老尾上) in
Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山舊錦繪).Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Togashi Saemon
(富樫左衛門), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶), and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経) in Kanjinchô (勧進帳). 
 
 

                    
Azuma Odori (東をどり)
  
Plays: Noboru Taiyô (のぼる太陽);  Yagura Mon Setsugetsuka (櫓紋雪月花)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/34
Print Date: 04/1934?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library