JUNE 1909
Play: Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記); On'na Kusunoki (女楠); Yowa Nasake
Ukina no Yokogushi
(与話情浮名横櫛); Setsugekka (雪月花)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
Artist: ?
Print Date: 06/04/09
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Danzo VII (市川団蔵; 市川團蔵) as Takechi
Mitsuhide (武智光秀),
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Takechi Jűjirô (武智十次郎), and Sawamura
Sôjűrô VII
(沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Hatsugiku (初菊) in Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記).
Kabukiza (歌舞伎座)
Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
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. 108 (July 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
Note: The plays on the June bill at the Kabuki-za were Ehon
Taikôki (絵本太功記); On'na Kusunoki (女楠); Yowa Nasake
Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛); and Setsugekka
(雪月花).