HIYOKUZUKA
(比翼塚)

                 
 
Plays: Yûshô no Tsuma (勇将の妻); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Hiyokuzuka Obana Teranishi
(比翼塚尾花寺西); Go Henka (五変化)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/12
Print Date: 10/25/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘) and  Onoe Eizaburô VI
(尾上栄三郎; 尾上榮三郎) as Hirai Yasumasa (平井保昌) in Tsuchigumo (土蜘).
 
 

Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as
Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)

Play: Hiyokuzuka  (比翼塚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Miuraya Komurasaki (三浦屋小紫)

Play: Hiyokuzuka  (比翼塚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as
Miuraya Komurasaki (三浦屋小紫)

Play: Hiyokuzuka  (比翼塚)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/15
Print Date: 1915?
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of Gary Christenson
 
Note: Although not signed, this postcard
appears to be by Natori Shunsen or else is
a knock-off of Shunsen's similar Yakusha
-e print.