HIDEYOSHI TO SORORI
(秀吉と曾呂利)
APRIL 1923
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Mitsunari (三成)
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); ; Saki Kisô
Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Saruhashi Uemon (猿橋右門),
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nanao Kinshirô (七尾金四郎), and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助) in Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga
Ka (咲競雪梅香);
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Koshimoto Chidori (腰元千鳥) in
Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらがな盛衰記); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精)
in Tsuchigumo
(蜘蛛).