HIYOKU NO TSURU
SENZAI SOGA
(比翼鶴千歳曽我)
Plays: Hiyoku no Tsuru Senzai Soga (比翼鶴千歳曽我); Ôsakazuki Shusen no
Tsuwamono
(大杯觴酒戦強者); Shinkyoku Mochizuki (新曲望月); Kitsune Shizuka no Keshô
Kagami (狐静化粧鏡);
Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/07
Print Date: 05/07/07
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I
as Ii Kamon-no-Kami
Naotaka (井伊掃部頭直孝) in Ôsakazuki Shusen no Tsuwamono (大杯觴酒戦強者); Onoe
Eizaburô VI
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Kozawa no Tomofusa (小沢友房) in Shinkyoku Mochizuki
(新曲望月); Nakamura
Shikaku I (中村芝鶴) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前) in Kitsune Shizuka no
Keshô Kagami (狐静化粧鏡); and
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Umegawa (傾城梅川) and Jitsukawa
Enjirô I
(実川延二郎; 實川延二郎) I as Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛) in Koi Bikyaku
Yamato Ôrai
(恋飛脚大和往来).