HARU NO YOI
(春の宵)




                 
 
Plays: Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞); Meihitsu Domo no Matahei (名筆吃又平);
Chikubushima (竹生島); Haru no Yoi (春の宵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/14
Print Date: 03/1914?
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 Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
(紀國屋文左衛門),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kaiga Saburôbei (貝賀三郎兵衛),
Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Otsune (お種), and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shirakoya
Shozaburo (白子屋庄三郎) in Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞).