SONO KOUTA YUME MO YOSHIWARA
(其小唄夢廓)

aka HIYOKU NO CHÔ HARU NO SOGA GIKU (比翼蝶春曾我菊)
aka GONJÔ (権上)
aka GONGE (権下)
aka GONPACHI KOMURASAKI (権八小紫)

Note: Gonjô (権上) is Act 1 of Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓).
Gonge (権下) is Act 2 of Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓).
 

APRIL 1923


Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓);
Sukeroku Sakura no Futae Obi (助六櫻の二重帯)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓);
Sukeroku Sakura no Futae Obi (助六櫻の二重帯)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



NOVEMBER 1925


Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)
 
Plays: Maimôsu Iro no Tanemaki (舞奏いろの蒔種); Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本櫻); Rakuhoku no Aki (洛北の秋);
Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (権八小紫其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/25
Print Date: 11/1925?
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 Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Takechi Mitsuhide (武智光秀)
disguised as the farmer Tajû (太十) and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Takechi
Jûjirô (武智十次郎) in Ehon Taikôki  (本太功記); and Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Yazaemon
(弥左衛門) and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yasuke (弥助) in Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura
(義経千本櫻).
 
 
 



FEBRUARY 1981

                   
Onoe Kikugorô VII (尾上菊五郎) as
Miuraya Komurasaki (三浦屋抱小紫)

Play: Sono Kouta Yume no Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/81
Print Date: 02/11/81
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits II (Design 5)]
Daini-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 5
(第二期大首絵シリーズの5)
Personal Collection (#2/36)
 
 
 
 

MARCH 1991

                 
Bandô Tamasaburô V (坂東玉三郎) as
Komurasaki Miuraya (三浦屋小柴)

Play: Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02/91
Print Date: 05/1991
Artist: Tsuruya Kokei (弦屋光溪)
Series: [Bust Portraits VIII (Design 6)]
Daihachi-ki Ôkubi-e Shirîzu no 6
(第七期大首絵シリーズの6)
Personal Collection (#31/90)
 
 
 

2009

                 
Gonpachi (権八)

Play: Sono Kouta Yume
mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓)
Print Date: 2009
Artist: Takahashi Hiromitsu
(髙橋宏光)
Medium: Kappazuri (ed. 16)
Image courtesy of the Tolman
Collection Tokyo
 
 
 

UNKNOWN DATES


? as Shirai Gonpachi (白井権八)?
 
Play: Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara
(其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection



               


? as Miuraya Komurasaki (三浦屋小紫)?
 
Play: Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara
(其小唄夢廓)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
senshafuda
Personal Collection