Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Mômoku no Sô (盲目の僧)
Plays: Yuki no Yûbe (雪の夕); Ike (池); Taiheiki Chûshin Kôshaku
(太平記忠臣講釈); Uirô (ういらう)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/05/22
Print Date: 09/1922?
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 Ichikawa Sanshô V (市川三升; 市川三舛) as
Toraya Tôkichi (虎屋東吉)/
Soga Gorô (曾我五郎) in Uirô (ういらう); and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Yazama Kinai (矢間喜内)
and Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as Yazama Jûtarô (矢間重太郎) in
Taiheiki Chûshin
Kôshaku (太平記忠臣講釈).