HIKOZAEMON MUSASHI
ABUMI
(彦左衛門武蔵鐙)
APRIL 1918
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôkubo Hikozaemon (大久保彦左衛門)
Plays: Miyajima no Danmari (宮島だんまり); Hikozaemon Musashi
Abumi (彦左衛門武蔵鐙);
Modoribashi (戻橋); Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/18
Print Date: 04/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sayuri (小百合)
in Modoribashi (戻橋); and Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nangô Rikimaru (南郷力丸), Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Benten Kozô (弁天小僧), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Akaboshi Jûzaburô
(赤星十三郎) in Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami (辨天娘女男白浪).