OGURUSU NO CHÔBÊ
(小栗栖の長兵衛)
NOVEMBER 1928
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛)
Plays: Saigou to Ôkubo (西郷と大久保); On'na Shibaraku (女暫); Ten no
Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); Kioi Jishi Minori no Iwai
(勢獅子大典奉祝)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/28
Print Date: 11/1928?
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 Kôzô II (尾上幸蔵) as Gozaemon
(五左衛門興) and Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛) in Ten no Amijima
Shigure no Kotatsu
(天網島時雨炬燵); Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Saigo Takamori (西郷隆盛)
and Morita Kan'ya
XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Okubo Toshimichi (大久保利通) in Saigou to Ôkubo
(西郷と大久保); and
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴) in On'na Shibaraku (女暫).