IROHA SHINSUKE
(いろは新助)

                 
 
Plays: Date Masamune (伊達政宗); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Iroha Shinsuke (いろは新助)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/12
Print Date: 03/12/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane
(熊谷次郎直実), Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Yoshitsune (義経),  Ichikawa
Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Midaroku ( 弥陀六), and  Jitsukawa Enjirô I (実川延二郎;
實川延二郎) as Sagami (相模) in Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記).
 
 

               
[March at the Meiji-za]
Sangetsu no Meijiza (三月の明治座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/12
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 142 (Apr. 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the March bill were Date Masamune
(伊達政宗); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記);
Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); and Iroha Shinsuke
(いろは新助).