HIDARI KOGATANA
(左小刀)


JULY 1912


Plays: Koi no Utsuro (恋の洞); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討);
Eguchi no Kimi (江口の君); Shârokku, Hômuzu (シャーロック、ホームズ); On'na Shujin (女主人);
Santarô (三太郎); Hidari Kogatana (左小刀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   07/03/12
Print Date: 07/1912?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
Note: The cover depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶) in
Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討).
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

APRIL 1928


Plays: Shinmon Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Suô Otoshi (素襖落);
Hakata Kojorô Nami Makura (博多小女郎浪枕);  Hidari Kogatana (左小刀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/28
Print Date: 04/1928?
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 Bandô Shûka (坂東しうか; 坂東志うか) as Kinmenuki Ginji (金目貫銀次), 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tobei (藤兵衛), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Shinmon
Tatsugorô  (新門辰五郎), and  Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Oroku (お六) in Shinmon
Tatsugorô (新門辰五郎);  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); and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue (梶原源太景季) in Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記).