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.