SAKI KISÔ YUKI NO UME
GA KA
(咲競雪梅香)
APRIL 1923
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Saruhashi Uemon (猿橋右門)
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Nanao Kinshirô (七尾金四郎)
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵之助)
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); Saki Kisô
Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Koshimoto
Chidori (腰元千鳥) in Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as
Tsuchigumo no Sei (土蜘蛛の精) in Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Mitsunari (三成) in Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利).