SOKOKURA NO
YU
(底倉湯)
FEBRUARY 1909
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Nitta Yoshitoki (新田義時)
Play: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Sokokura no Yu (底倉湯); Imayô
Mochizuki (今様望月);
Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/09
Print Date: 02/27/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover also depicts Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Ozawa no Gyôbu
(小澤刑部) in Imayô Mochizuki (今様望月) and Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門)
as Ôishi Kuranosuke
(大石内蔵助) in the play of the same name.
[[Kataoka] Nizaemon [XI] at the Meijiz-a]
Meijiza no Nizaemon (明治座の仁左衛門)
Plays: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Sokokura no Yu (底倉湯);
Imayô Mochizuki (今様望月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/09
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. 104 (Mar. 1, 1909)
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