MEIHITSUDOMO NO MATAHEI
(名筆吃又平)
 

                 
 
Plays: Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞); Meihitsu Domo no Matahei (名筆吃又平);
Chikubushima (竹生島); Haru no Yoi (春の宵)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/14
Print Date: 03/1914?
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 Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
(紀國屋文左衛門),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kaiga Saburôbei (貝賀三郎兵衛), 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Otsune (お種), and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shirakoya
Shozaburo (白子屋庄三郎) in Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞).
 
 

                    
Plays: Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記); Meihitsudomo no Matahei (名筆吃又平);
Katsuragawa Renri no Shigarami (桂川連理柵);  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/31/26
Print Date: 071926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
(紀國屋文左衛門),  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kaiga Saburôbei (貝賀三郎兵衛),
Sawamura Sônosuke I (澤村宗之助) as Otsune (お種), and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shirakoya
Shozaburo (白子屋庄三郎) in Kinokuni Bunza Daijin Mai (紀國文左大盡舞).
 
 
 

                    
Bunraku
   
Plays:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Meihitsudomo no Matahei (名筆吃又平); Ten no
Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山旧錦絵);
Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/21/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
 
 
 

                    
Bunraku
   
Plays:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Meihitsudomo no Matahei (名筆吃又平); Ten no
Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山旧錦絵);
Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/21/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library