Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Saigo Takamori (西郷隆盛)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Okubo Toshimichi (大久保利通)
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); Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛)
in Ogurusu no Chôbê (小栗栖の長兵衛); and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Maizuru (舞鶴) in On'na
Shibaraku (女暫).