KANAYA KOUME
(仮名屋小梅)

aka KOUME TO KAZUE (小梅と一重)

Cover of play outline (sujigaki)

Play: Kanaya Koume (仮名屋小梅)
Performance Place: Minami--za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 04/08/20
Print Date: 04/1920
Artist: ?
Medium: Offset printed sujigaki
Personal Collection 
 
Note: Most of the cast previously appeared in a
production at the Shintomi-za in Tokyo, which opened
on November 11, 1919.   In addition to Kawai Takeo,
who played Kanaya Koume, the cast in Kyoto included
Kinoshita (木下), Murata Shikibu (村田式部), Takemura
Shin (武村新), Umejima Noboru (梅島昇), Nagoshi
Senzaemon (名越仙左衛門), Takashima Umetarô
(高島梅太郎), Matsumoto Yôjirô (松本要次郎),  and
Shimoda Mô  (下田猛).
 
 
 
 

               
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Koume (小梅)

Play: Koume to Kazue (小梅と一重), a version of 
Kanaya Koume (仮名屋小梅)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/40
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gako (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#23)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Takeo died on March 21, 1942 at age
68.  He first played the role of Koume in Kanaya Koume
in Tokyo at the Shintomi-za in November 1919.  Although
Takeo's final Tokyo appearance was at the Meiji-za in
January 1940, it is possible that Gakô based this print on
one of Takeo's prior performances.