SATSUMA ODORI
(薩摩踊)
OCTOBER 1911
Plays: Shisen Ryô Koban no Ume-no-Ha (四千両小判梅葉); Kaichô Taiji
(怪鳥退治);
Minowa no Shinjû (箕輪の心中); Chûkô Somewake Tazuna (忠孝染分繮);
Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/27/11
Print Date: 09/28/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed 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
Yoshida Gorozaburo
(吉田五郎三郎), Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Fujieda Geki
(藤枝外記), and
Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助) as Ayaginu (綾衣) in Minowa no
Shinjû
(箕輪の心中), and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Date Shinzaemon
(伊達新左衛門) in
Chûkô Somewake Tazuna (忠孝染分繮).
SEPTEMBER 1916
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Ejima
Ikushima (江島生島);
Funa Benkei (船辨慶); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/16
Print Date: 09/1916?
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 Kesa
Gozen
(袈裟御前), Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as Kinugawa (衣川),
and Matsumoto
Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Mongaku Shônin (文覚上人; 文覺上人) in Nachi no
Taki Chikai no
Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Tatsuma
Saburôbei (達摩三郎兵衛),
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ikushima Shingorô (生島新五郎),
and Onoe Baikô
VI (尾上梅幸) as Ejima (江島) in Ejima Ikushima (江島生島).
JANUARY 1926
Plays: Kuramayama (鞍馬山); Oimatsu Wakamatsu (老松若松); Tsumoru Koi
Yuki no Seki no To
(浄瑠璃積戀雪關扉); Sakuratsuba Urami no Samezaya (櫻鍔恨鮫鞘); Haru no Shirabe
Musume
Nanakusa (春調娘七種); Kyôran Kumoi no Sode (狂乱雲井袖); Satsuma Odori
(薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 01/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum