HIGO NO KAMI KIYOMASA
(肥後守清正)

                 
 
Plays: Chikamatsu Kaikei Soga (近松会稽曽我); Higo no Kami Kiyomasa (肥後守清正);
Migawa Zazen (身替座禅);  Koi Sumô Haru Kaobure (恋相撲春顔触); Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (寿靭猿)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Print Date: 02/17/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover possibly depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Ochikubo Koshirô (落窪小四郎)
and Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in Higo no Kami Kiyomasa
(肥後守清正).
 
 

               
[February at the Kabuki-za]
Nigatsu no Kibukiza (二月の歌舞伎座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Toyko
Performance Date: 02/17/12
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 141 (Mar. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the February bill were Chikamatsu Kaikei Soga
(近松会稽曽我); Higo no Kami Kiyomasa (肥後守清正); Migawari
Zazen (身替座禅);   Koi Sumô Haru Kaobure (恋相撲春顔触); and
Kotobuki Utsubo Zaru (寿靭猿).