EJIMA IKUSHIMA
(江島生島)
SEPTEMBER 1916
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tatsuma Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô (生島新五郎)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島)
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Ejima
Ikushima (江島生島);
Funa Benkei (船辨慶); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/16
Print Date: 09/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Kesa Gozen
(袈裟御前), Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Kinugawa (衣川),
and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Mongaku Shônin (文覚上人; 文覺上人) in Nachi no
Taki Chikai no
Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚).
JUNE 1926
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô (生島新五郎)
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tatsuma Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛)
Plays: Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Sangoku Musô Hisago no Gunpai
(三國無双瓢軍配);
Genboku to Chôei (玄朴と長英); Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui
(柳巷春着薊色縫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/26
Print Date: 06/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Gokurakuji Seishin (極楽寺所化清心)
in Sato no Harugi Azami no Ironui (柳巷春着薊色縫); and Morita Kan’ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Takano Choei (高野長英) and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Genpaku
(玄朴) in Genboku to
Chôei (玄朴と長英).
OCTOBER 1927
Plays: Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Shin Sarayashiki Tsuki no
Amagasa
(新皿屋舗月雨暈); Shunkyô Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子); Taiheiki Asahi no Yoroi
(太平記曦鎧)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Shishi no Sei
(獅子の精) in Shunkyô
Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子); and Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵), Bandô
Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎),
and an unknown actor in unknown roles.