KURAMAYAMA
(鞍馬山)
JUNE 1920
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Kuchinawa Monogatari (くちなは物語); Gion
Sairei Shinkôki
(祗園祭禮信仰記); Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭戀寝刃)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/20
Print Date: 06/1920?
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 Matsunaga
Daizen (松永大膳) in
Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祗園祭禮信仰記); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Tarôji
(太郎次) and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Maroya (まろや) in
Kuchinawa
Monogatari (くちなは物語); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rinpei
(林平), Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Aburaya
Okon (油屋おこん; 油屋お紺); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Manno
(万野) in Ise Ondo Koi
no Netaba (伊勢音頭戀寝刃).
JANUARY 1926
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tenmei Tarô (天明太郎)
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe
Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori
(薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
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 Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Sumizome (墨染)
and Matsumoto Kôshirô
VII (松本幸四郎) as Sekibei jitsu ha Ōtomo no Kuronushi (関兵衛 実ハ大伴黒主) in
Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To (浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Furuteya
Hachirobei (古手屋八郎兵衛) in Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); and
Onoe Matsusuke
IV (尾上松助) as Uratayu (浦太夫) in Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松).