KOZAKURA ODOSHI
(小櫻縅)


 

                 
 
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).
 
 
 

               
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Saburô Tsugunobu (三郎嗣信)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (澤村宗十郎) as
Koshimoto Hayase (腰元早瀬)
 
Play: Kozakura Odoshi (小櫻縅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/14
Print Date: 02/01/14
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 8, No. 2 (Feb. 1, 1914)
Image courtesy of the University of California