SEKEN
(世間)
NOVEMBER 1915
Plays: Nihon Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始); Seken (世間); Gosho Zakura
Horikawa no Youchi
(御所櫻堀川夜討); Otagaisama (お互様); Tsuri On'na (釣女)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 11/1915?
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 Nakamura Tôzô V (中村東蔵) as Susanô no Mikoto
(素盞嗚尊) in Nihon
Furisode Hajime (日本振袖始); and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as
Yoshitsune (義経) and
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Tôyata (藤弥太) in Gosho Zakura
Horikawa no Youchi
(御所櫻堀川夜討).
Nakamura Tozo V (中村東蔵) as Yada Shinpei (矢田進平)
Kawamura Kikue (河村菊枝) as Torako (寅子)
Hatsuse Namiko (初瀬浪子) as O-ei (お栄)
Play: Seken (世間)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/15
Print Date: 12/01/15
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 9, No. 12 (Dec. 1, 1915)
Personal Collection