SAGURA SHIGURE
(さくら時雨)
APRIL 1909
Play: Yûshoku Kamakurayama (有職鎌倉山); Gion Sairei Shinkôki
(祇園祭礼信仰記); Sakura Shigure
(桜時雨); Saruwaka (猿若)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
Print Date: 04/06/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Konoshita Tôkichi
(此下東吉) in Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記), and Ichikawa Sadanji II
(市川左団次; 市川左團次)
as Miura Arajirô (三浦荒次郎) and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Sano
Genzaemon
(佐野源左衛門) in Yûshoku Kamakurayama (有職鎌倉山).
JUNE 1910
Plays: Nue Taiji (鵺退治); Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝); Izumo no Okuni
(出雲の阿国);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨); Rokkasen Kyôga no Suminuri (六歌仙狂画墨塗)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/10
Print Date: 06/01/10
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
NOVEMBER 1921
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Banto Gobei (番頭五兵衛)
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Haiya Saburôbê (灰屋三郎兵衛)
Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Keizan-ko (慶山公)
Plays: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); Tsubosaka Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/21
Print Date: 11/1921?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)
and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康)
in Taiko no
Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Zatô Sawaichi
(座頭沢市) and Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里) in Tsubosaka
Reigenki
(壺坂霊験記).
UNKNOWN DATE
Yoshinodayû (吉野太夫)
Play: Sakura Shigure (桜時雨)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III
(長谷川貞信)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
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