NIHON FURISODE
HAJIM
(日本振袖始)
NOVEMBER 1915
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as
Susanô no Mikoto (素盞嗚尊)
Play: Nihon Furisode Hajime
(日本振袖始; 日本振袖初)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 11/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen ((名取春仙)
Publication: Yakusha-e (Shin Nigao)
(新似顔), Vol. 5
Personal Collection
Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Susanô no Mikoto (素盞嗚尊)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yoshitsune (義経)
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Tôyata (藤弥太)
Plays: Nihon Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始); Seken (世間); Gosho Zakura
Horikawa no Youchi
(御所櫻堀川夜討); Otagaisama (お互様); Tsuri On'na (釣女)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 11/1915?
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 Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Yoshitsune (義経) and Bandô
Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Tôyata (藤弥太) in Gosho Zakura Horikawa no
Youchi (御所櫻堀川夜討).
2002
[Susanoo-no-Mikoto and Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed
dragon]
Furisode Hajime (振袖始)
Play: Nihon Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始)
Print Date: 2002
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu (髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 7)
Image courtesy of the Tolman Collection Tokyo