HOKEN GIRAHI
(保険ぎらひ)
MAY 1908
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜); Retsujo Shikinami
(烈女敷浪);
Futaribakama (二人袴); Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣); Hoken
Girahi (保険ぎらひ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Print Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka Gozen
(静御前) and Ichimura Uzaemon
XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信) in Yoshitsune Senbon
Zakura (義経千本桜).