Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Hosokawa Tadaoki no Tsuma (細川忠興の妻); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
[Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); Kuruwa no Sayaate (廓鞘當); Kiku Ningyô (菊人形)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/02/16
Print Date: 11/1916?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Akushichibyôe Kagekiyo
(悪七兵衛景清) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Akoya (阿古屋) in
Kagekiyo (景清); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takeda Katsuyori (武田勝頼)
and Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門) as Yaegahime (八重垣姫) in Honchô Nijûshikô
(本朝廿四孝); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Kasane (累) and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Magarikane no Kingorô (曲金の金五郎) in [Meiboku] Kasane Monogatari ([薫樹]累物語); and an
unidentified actor in an unknown role.