HARU NO SHIRABE
MUSUME NANAKUSA
(春調娘七種)
JANUARY 1926
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe
Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori
(薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei
Tarô (天明太郎) in
Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛 実ハ大伴黒主) in
Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To (浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Furuteya
Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛) in Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); and
Onoe Matsusuke
IV (尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).