HARU CHIKASHI
(春近し)
Plays: Yashamaru (夜叉丸); Koshin to Enba (小しんと焉馬); Gakuyaguchi
(楽屋口);
Tôjinzuka (唐人塚); Haru Chikashi (春近し)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Chin Jin
Shie (陳仁謝) and Morita
Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Chôshirô (長四郎) in Tôjinzuka (唐人塚);
and Onoe Matsusuke
IV (尾上松助) as Kawai Ikujirô (河合幾次郎) in Gakuyaguchi (楽屋口).