HIGAN NO YÛBE
(彼岸の夕)
NOVEMBER 1922
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Denbei (傳兵衛)
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as O-Ume (お梅)
Plays: Shibaraku (暫); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Fuji Daiko
(富士太鼓);
Higan no Yûbe (彼岸の夕); Yûgiri Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/06/22
Print Date: 11/1922?
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
Kiyohara no Takehira (清原武衡)
and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kamakura Gongorô Kagemasa
(鎌倉権五郎景政) in
Shibaraku (暫); Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Fujiya Izaemon
(藤屋伊左衛門) in Yûgiri
Izaemon Kuruwa Bunshô (夕霧伊左衛門廓文章); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Fuji No Tsuma
Suminoe (富士の妻住の江) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toin
Nagazane
(洞院長實) in Fuji Daiko (富士太鼓).