NIGATSUDÔ
(二月堂)

                 
 
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).
 
 
 

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Rôben Daisôjô (良辨大僧正)
 
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: 04/01/26
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Kazusa (上總)  and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Jirô Naozane
(熊谷次郎直実) in Genpei Sakigake Tsutsuji
(源平魁躑躅); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as
Shinonome (東雲) in Inaka Genji Tsuyu no
Shinonome (田舎源氏露東雲); and  Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kurotegumi
Sukeroku (黒手組助六) in Kurotegumi Kuruwa no
Tatehiki (黒手組曲輪達引).