ONO KOMACHI
(小野小町)
JUNE 1923
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Ono Komachi (小野小町).
Plays: Kaga Sôdô (加賀騒動); Shizuhata Obi (賤機帯); Ryôgoku no Aki
(兩国の秋);
Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Ono Komachi (小野小町)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/23
Print Date: 06/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock 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 Ataka
Gôemon (安宅郷右衛門) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôta Ôi (太田大炊) in Kaga Sôdô
(加賀騒動); Sawamura Sôjûrô
VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nishina Rin'nosuke (仁科林之助), Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as
Hebitsukahi Okinu (蛇つかひお絹), and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Toyokichi (豊吉) in Ryôgoku
no Aki (兩国の秋); and Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Sasaki
Moritsuna (佐々木盛綱) in Ômi
Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館).