HANAGOYOMI HASSHOJIN
(花暦八笑人)


APRIL 1916

                 
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前); Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura
(博多小女郎浪枕); Hanagoyomi Hasshojin (花暦八笑人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/16
Print Date: 04/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Rô Kitsune (老狐) in Tamamo-no-Mae (玉藻前);
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kezori Kuemon (毛剃九右衛門) in Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura
(博多小女郎浪枕);  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Watanabe Gekizaemon (渡辺外記左衛門) and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hosokawa Katsumoto (細川勝元); and Sawamura
Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) in an unknown role.