FUTATSU NO SHI
(二つの死)
FEBRUARY 1919
Plays: On'na Kurumabiki (女車引); Shiobara Tasuke Nidai Kagami
(鹽原多助二代鑑);
Futatsu no Shi (二つの死); Komurasaki Kaidai Hiyokuzuka (小紫改題比翼塚);
Senshô Odori (戰勝踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
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 Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Shiobara Tasuke (塩原太助)
in Shiobara Tasuke Nidai Kagami (鹽原多助二代鑑), and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) and another
actor in unknown roles.
MARCH 1920
Plays: Umi no Yûsha (海の勇者); Futatsu no Shi (二つの死); Matsuri no Asa
(祭の朝)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/20
Print Date: 03/1920?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum