NISHIYAMA MONOGATARI
(西山物語)
Plays: Nishiyama Monogatari (西山物語); Yuki no Tokiwa (雪常磐);
Kanjinchô (勸進帳);
Echigo no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Ryôkan to Komori (良寛と子守)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/29
Print Date: 06/1929?
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 Onoe Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Yoriki Ishiko
Bansaku (與力石子伴作) in Echigo
no Denkichi (越後の傳吉); Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tokiwa Gozen (常磐御前;
常盤御前) in Yuki no
Tokiwa (雪常磐); Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Ryôkan (良寛)
in Ryôkan to Komori
(良寛と子守); and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hangan
Yoshitsune (判官義経),
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Musashibô Benkei (武蔵坊弁慶),
and Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次) as Togashi Saemon (富樫左衛門).