NAGAMACHI ON'NA NO HARAKIRI
(長町女腹切)
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).