NAGAMACHI ON'NA NO HARAKIRI
(長町女腹切)

               
[March Kyôgen for the Meiji-za]
Meijiza no Sangatsu Kyôgen (明治座の三月狂言)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10/11
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 130 (Apr. 1, 1911)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The plays on the March bill were Keiyoho (景陽岡); Murakami
Yoshimitsu (村上義光); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Berusu (ベルス); and Niwaka Sennin (俄仙人).     
 
 

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Hanshichi no Oba (半七の叔母)

Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Iwami (石見)
 
Plays: Shinnyo (真如); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Nagamachi On'na no Harakiri (長町女腹切);
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/22
Print Date: 10/1922?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Yaegiri of the Hagino
Family] Hagino-ka no Yaegiri (萩野家の八重桐) in Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Morita Kan'ya XIII
(守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Rônin Gotô Genjirô (浪人後藤源次郎) and  Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助;
澤村宗之助) as Rônin Isogai Kazuma (浪人磯貝數馬) in Shinnyo (真如); and Matsumoto Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Shirabyôshi Sakurako jitsu ha Kyôgen-shi Sakon (白拍子桜子 実ハ狂言師左近) in
Yakko Dôdôji (奴道成寺).