Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚)

SHIRANUI MONOGATARI
(白縫譚)

OCTOBER 1915

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)

Play: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10//01/15
Print Date: 1915?
Artist: Matsuda Seifu (松田青風)
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection

Note: Although the print is neither dated nor
identifies the actor, the resemblance to Seifu's
Yakusha-e print from 1915 is unmistakeable.
The actor, however, looks younger, and so it
could depict another actor in some unknown
later production.

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)

Plays: Shiranui Monogatari (白縫譚); Hitotsuya (一つ家); Fumi Hiroge (文ひろげ);
Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛); Shitto (嫉妬)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/15
Print Date: 10/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: The cover also depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Ibara (いばら) in Hitotsuya (一つ家); and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Banzuiin Chôbei (幡随長兵衛; 幡随院長兵衛) and Sawamura
Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Mizuno (水野) in Banzui Chôbê (幡随長兵衛).

NOVEMBER 1926

Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Toriyama Inuchiyo (鳥山犬千代)

Plays: Kôchiyama to Naozamurai (河内山と直侍); Shiranui Monogatari (時代劇白縫譚)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/26
Print Date: 11/1926?
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 Morita Kan’ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kurayami no Ushimatsu
(くらやみの丑松), Onoe Baikō VI (尾上梅幸) as Michitose (三千歳), Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Takega (丈賀), Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kataoka Naojirô (片岡直次郎), and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Kôchiyama Sôshun (河内山宗俊) in Kôchiyama to Naozamurai '
(河内山と直侍).