NIGATSUDÔ
(二月堂)
MAY 1913
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂); Taiwan Miyage Seiban Shûrai
(台湾土産生蕃襲来); Rokkasen (六歌仙)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/13
Print Date: 05/1913?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Bun'ya
Yasuhide (文屋康秀), Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Gion no Okaji (祇園のお梶), Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Kisen (喜撰), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono
no Komachi (小野小町)
in Rokkasen (六歌仙).
APRIL 1926
Plays: Nigatsudô (二月堂); Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji (源平魁躑躅); Inaka
Genji Tsuyu no Shinonome
(田舎源氏露東雲); Kurotegumi Kuruwa no Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/26
Print Date: 04/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum