SHÛSHIKI SAKURA UENO HAYASAKI
(秋色桜上野早咲)

                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Owasa  (おあさ)
   
Ichikawa Sadanji I (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Musashibô Benkei (武蔵防弁慶)
 
Plays: Soga Danmari (曽我だんまり); Gotô Matabê (後藤又兵衛); Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi
(御所桜堀川夜討); Shûshiki Sakura Ueno Hayasaki (秋色桜上野早咲)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/04
Print Date: 01/16/1904
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

               
Kasuga Shatô, Kusadoriki , Yamato-hashi , Shûshoku Sakura,
Wafuji Uchi Oyobi Fûkiri (春日社頭、草撮曳、大和橋、秋色櫻、
和藤內及び封切)

Play: ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 45 (Feb. 1, 1904)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: There was a production of Shûshiki Sakura Ueno Hayasaki
(秋色桜上野早 咲) that opened at the Meiji-za on January 14, 1904.
It is possible that the title refers in part to that production.
 
 
 

               
Kasuga Shatô, Kusadoriki , Yamato-hashi , Shûshoku Sakura,
Wafuji Uchi Oyobi Fûkiri (春日社頭、草撮曳、大和橋、秋色櫻、
和藤內及び封切)

Play: ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 45 (Feb. 1, 1904)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: There was a production of Shûshiki Sakura Ueno Hayasaki
(秋色桜上野早 咲) that opened at the Meiji-za on January 14, 1904.
It is possible that the title refers in part to that production.