NUNO-ZARASHI
(布晒し)

                 
Plays: Maki no Kata (牧の方); Shinpan Utazaimon (新板歌祭文); Misao Sanbasô (操三番叟);
Nuno-zarashi (布晒し; 布さらし)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/05
Print Date: 05/06/05
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts chikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Moriyoshi (守義) and  Nakamura Shikan
V (中村芝翫) as Maki no Kata (牧の方) in Maki no Kata (牧の方).   The other two figures on the cover are
as yet unidentified.   The child actor might be Nakamura Kansuke [III?] (中村翫助).
 
 

Nuno-zarashi (布晒し)
 
Print Date: June 6, 1937
Artist: Yamakawa Shûhô (山川秀峰)
Series: [Fifty Dances] Odori Gojyûban (をどり五十番) #4
Personal Collection
 
Note:  Technically speaking, "Nuno-zarashi" is not the name of a
particular dance, but rather a technique seen in Kabuki and traditional
Japanese dance, which involves the waving about of two long strips
of cloth in the air so as not to let them touch the ground.