KAICHO TAIJI
(怪鳥退治)
Plays: Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha (四千両小判梅葉); Kaichô Taiji
(怪鳥退治);
Minowa no Shinjû (箕輪の心中); Chûkô Somewake Tazuna (忠孝染分繮);
Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/27/11
Print Date: 09/28/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Yoshida Gorozaburo
(吉田五郎三郎), Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Fujieda Geki
(藤枝外記), and
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Ayaginu (綾衣) in Minowa no
Shinjû
(箕輪の心中), and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Date Shinzaemon
(伊達新左衛門) in
Chûkô Somewake Tazuna (忠孝染分繮).