Play: Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘); Seishôkô (清正公); Hana no Ueno Homare no
Ishibumi (花上野誉碑); Nyôbô no Kokoroe (女房の心得)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
Print Date: 04/01/09
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正) in
Seishôkô (清正公) and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Ôguchiya Gyôu (大口屋暁雨)
in Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘).
 

               
Kabukiza (歌舞伎)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 106 (May 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the April bill at the Kabuki-za were Kyôkaku
Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘); Seishôkô (清正公); Hana no Ueno
Homare no Ishibumi (花上野誉碑); and Nyôbô no Kokoroe
(女房の心得).