HORIBE MYÔKAINI
(堀部妙海尼)

                 
 
Plays:  Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼);  Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Renjishi (連獅子);
Katô Saemon (加藤左衞門); Mitsu Uroko (三ツ鱗)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/16/12
Print Date: 11/1912
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Ofude (お筆), Sawamura Sônosuke I
(沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Oyoshi (およし), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sendô
Matsuemon (船頭松右衛門), in actuality, Higuchi Jirô (桶口次郎), and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hatakeyama Shoji Shigetada (畠山庄司重忠) in Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひらがな盛衰記).
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yahê (弥兵衛)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Okô (お幸)
 
Plays: Horibe Myôkaini (堀部妙海尼); Kanjinchô (勸進帳); Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi
(碁太平記白石噺); Noriaibune (浄瑠璃乗合船)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/21
Print Date: 04/1921?
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Shinobu (信夫) in
Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi (碁太平記白石噺); and  Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (源義経), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibo Benkei
(武蔵坊弁慶), and  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門)
in Kanjinchô (勸進帳).