SHÛSHIN NO ONI
(執心の鬼)
DECEMBER 1915
Plays: Shikorobiki (錣引); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Shinrei Yaguchi no
Watashi (神霊矢口渡);
Shûshin no Oni (執心の鬼); Momijigari (紅葉狩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/26/15
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 Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Mionoya Shirô (三保谷四郎)
in Shikorobiki (錣引); Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Narita Kosaburô
Takashin (成田小三郎尭心) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年) in Nawa
Nagatoshi (名和長年); Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Togakushiyama no Kijo (戸隠山の鬼女) in Momijigari
(紅葉狩); and Sawamura
Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Ofune (お舟) in Shinrei Yaguchi no
Watashi (神霊矢口渡).