DOKURO MAI
(髑髏舞)
AUGUST 1921
Plays: Kôyasan (高野山); Dokuro Mai (髑髏舞); Tsuri Onna (釣女);
Ingamonoshi (因果物師)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/21
Print Date: 08/1921?
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 Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as Tatara
Shindozaemon
(多々羅新洞左衛門) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Karukaya
Dôshin (苅萱道心)
in Kôyasan (高野山); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Ingamonoshi
Nozarashi Kobê
(因果物師野晒小兵衛) and Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Inga Kozô Rokunosuke
(因果小僧六之助)
in Ingamonoshi (因果物師); and Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Tarôkaja (太郎冠者) in Tsuri
Onna (釣女).