KAZUMIYA-SAMA OTSUKAI
(和宮様御使)
OCTOBER 1926
Plays: Kazumiya-sama Otsukai (和宮様御使); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no
Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻);
Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/26
Print Date: 10/1926?
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 Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as
Torazô (虎蔵),
actually Ushiwakamaru (牛若丸), and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Kiichi Hôgen
(鬼一法眼) in Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻); Ichikawa
Sadanji II (市川左団次)
as Tachiba Taheiji (立場太平次) in Katakiuchi Gappô-ga-Tsuji (敵討合法辻);
and Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助), Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸), Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥;
守田勘彌), and Kawai Takeo
(河合武雄; 河合武夫) in unknown roles.