CHÔCHIDORI SATO NO
HARUKOMA
(蝶千鳥廓春駒)
Plays: Yuki On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); Suô Otoshi (素襖落);
Ryûkyô Yawa (柳橋夜話);
Chôchidori Sato no Harukoma (蝶千鳥廓春駒); Dontsuku (どんつく)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/21
Print Date: 01/1921?
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 Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Akamatsu
Nyûdô Mitsusuke (赤松入道満祐)
and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tônai Saburô
Moriharu (藤内三郎盛治) in Yuki
On'na Gomai Hagoita (雪女五枚羽子板); Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Shujin Bô
(主人某) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tarôkaja (太郎冠者) in Suô
Otoshi (素襖落); and
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Yoshinoya Koshizu (吉野家小静) and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Sawamura Tanosuke (沢村田之助) in Ryûkyô Yawa (柳橋夜話).