HOTOTOGISU
(不如帰)


 


SEPTEMBER 1904

               

Play: Hototogisu (不如帰); Modori Kago (戻駕)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/22/04 
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 54 (Oct. 1, 1904)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 





JUNE 1906

                 
 
Plays: Hototogisu  (不如帰); Adesugata On'namaiginu (艶姿女舞衣); Ehon Taikôki  (絵本太功記);
Teki Kyôkaku Aizukotetsu (適侠客会津小鉄)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/14/06
Print Date: 06/14/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Tosshi VII (沢村訥子; 澤村訥子) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十) and Nakamura Matagorô I (中村又五郎; 中村叉五郎) as Takechi
Jûjirô (武智十次郎).
 
 




APRIL 1908


Unknown as Unread

Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as
Kawashima Takeshi?
(川島武)

Kitamura Ryokurô (喜多村緑郎) as
Kawashima Namiko (川島浪子)

Unkread as Unknown
 
Play: Hototogisu (不如帰)
Performance Place: Hongo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/1908
Print Date: 06/04/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada IIII (歌川国貞)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum