MUKASHI UTSUSHI NEZUMI
KOMON
(昔摸鼠小紋)
Plays: Azuchi no Haru (安土の春); Shinjû Naniwa no Harusame (心中浪華春雨);
Sannin Katawa
(三人片輪); Mukashi Utsushi Nezumi Komon (昔摸鼠小紋); Sato no Hanatsui no
Amigasa ( 廓花対編笠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/26
Print Date: 03/01/26
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Sumizô VI (市川寿美蔵; 市川壽美蔵) as
Tabibito Shirobee (旅人四郎兵衛)
and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次) as Oda Nobunaga (織田信長) in
Azuchi no Haru (安土の春); Ichikawa
Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Hiji Tarosuke (臂太郎助) and Ichikawa Shôchô II
(市川松蔦) as Omaki (おまき)
in Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); and Ichimura Kamezo III (市村亀蔵;
市村龜蔵) as Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)
and Kataoka Ichizô IV (片岡市蔵) as Fuwa Banzaemon (不破伴左衛門) in
Sato no Hanatsui no Amigasa
(廓花対編笠).