ON'NA TENKA
(女天下)


 




NOVEMBER 1913

                 
 
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); On'na Tenka (女天下); Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Minamoto no
Yoshitsune (源義経) and  Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Tomomori (知盛) in Yoshitsune
Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); and  Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Tsuchigumo (土蜘) and
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Minamoto Yorimitsu (源頼光).
 





JULY 1920

                 
 
Plays: Yashi no Kage (椰子の蔭); Amayo no Kyoku (雨夜の曲); On'na Tenka (女天下)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/16/20
Print Date: 07/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Tamba Jiro Tokikuni (丹波次郎時國),
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Kanai Kotarô Kagemasa (金井小太郎景正), and 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kanai Nagatomori Kagemasa (金井長門守景家) in Amayo no Kyoku
(雨夜の曲).