NIKKÔ YÔMEIMON
(日光陽明門)
APRIL 1919
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kurihara Tôtômi (栗原遠江)
Plays: Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Nikkô Yômeimon (日光陽明門);
Ibaraki (茨木);
Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲日記); Genroku Hanami Odori (元禄花見踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/19
Print Date: 04/1919?
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 Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibaraki
Dôji (茨木童子) in Ibaraki (茨木);
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助: 澤村宗之助) as Atsumori (敦盛) and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII
(松本幸四郎) as Kumagai Naozane (熊谷 次郎 直実) in Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki
(一谷嫩軍記); and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) in an unknown role.