KOZAKURA ODOSHI
(小櫻縅)
JANUARY 1914
Plays: Kozakura Odoshi (小櫻縅); Madamu Batafurai [Madame Butterfly]
(マダム、バタフライ);
Onatsu Seijûrô Kotobuki Renri no Matsu (お夏清十郎壽連理の松); Kane ni Hen
(かねに恨)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/14
Print Date: 01/1914?
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 Akudama
(悪玉) and Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Zendama ( 善玉) in Kane ni Hen (かねに恨), and Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Seijûrô (清十郎) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as
Onatsu (お夏) in Onatsu
Seijûrô Kotobuki Renri no Matsu (お夏清十郎壽連理の松).