MAIMÔSU IRO NO
TANEMAKI
(舞奏いろの蒔種)
Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種); Ehon Taikôki
(本太功記);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋);
Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/25
Print Date: 11/1925?
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 Takechi
Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
disguised as the farmer Tajű (太十) and Sawamura Sôjűrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Takechi
Jűjirô (武智十次郎) in Ehon Taikôki (本太功記); Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Yazaemon
(弥左衛門) and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yasuke (弥助) in
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本櫻); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)
and Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八) in Sono Kouta Yume
mo Yoshiwara
(権八小紫其小唄夢廓).