Play: ?
Performance Place: Shikoku Konpira Kabuki Grand Theater,
Kotohira
Performance Dates: June 15-18, 1985
Print Date: 1985
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed poster
Personal Collection
Note: The program was made up of Saikai Zakura Misome
no Kiyomizu (再桜遇清水) and Niwaka Jishi (俄獅子). It
starred Nakamura Kichiemon II (中村吉右衛門), Sawamura
Tôjûrô II (沢村藤十郎; 澤村藤十郎), Sawamura Sôjûrô IX
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎), Ichimura Yoshigorô II
(市村吉五郎), Ichimura Kakitsu IX (市村家橘), and
Nakamura Kangorô XIII. The poster design is based on a
print by Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎写楽) that depicts Ôtani
Oniji I (大谷鬼次) as Yakko Edobei (奴江戸兵衛) in the play
Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱), which
premiered at the Kawarazaki-za, Tokyo, on May 5, 1794.