MATSUMIDORI CHIYODA NO NINJÔ
(松緑千代田刃傷)
FEBRUARY 1910
Plays: Matsumidori Chiyoda no Ninjô (松緑千代田刃傷); Sesshû
Gappô-ga-Tsuji (摂州合邦辻);
Yamatogana Ariwara Keizu (倭仮名在原系図)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/25/10
Print Date: 02/28/19
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Gappô
Dôshin (合邦道心) and
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Tamate Gozen (玉手御前) in Sesshû
Gappô-ga-Tsuji (摂州合邦辻).
The other figure is as yet unidentified.