KUSATSU UBA-GA-MOCHI
(草津姥ヶ餅)
Plays: Dôgen to Tokiyori (道元と時頼); Kinmô Kitsune (金毛狐);
Sono Omokage Kijin Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); Kusatsu Uba-ga-mochi (草津姥ヶ餅)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/29
Print Date: 10/1929?
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 Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Shinsuke (親助) and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kuwanaya Tokubei (桑名屋徳兵衛) in Sono Omokage Kijin
Kagami
(其俤鬼人鏡); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tamamo no Mae (玉藻の前) in Kinmô
Kitsune (金毛狐); and
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tokiyori (時頼) and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Dôgen (道元) in Dôgen to Tokiyori (道元と時頼).