TAIKO NO OTO CHIYÛ SANRYAKU
(太鼓音智勇三略)

aka SAKAI NO TAIKO (酒井の太鼓)

                 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康)
 
 Plays: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記);
Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/01/21
Print Date: 11/1921?
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 Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as Zatô Sawaichi  (座頭沢市) and 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Nyôbô Osato (女房お里) in Tsubosaka Reigenki (壺坂霊験記); and  Onoe
Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Banto Gobei (番頭五兵衛),  Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎)
as Haiya Saburôbê (灰屋三郎兵衛), and Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Keizan-ko (慶山公)
in Sakura Shigure (さくら時雨).
 
 
 

                 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)

Play: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Chûkô Kabuki Jûhachiban  (忠孝歌舞伎十八番);
also reissued as part of the series Kabuki Jûni Dai
(歌舞伎十二第) in 1952
*Personal Collection

Note: Kichiemon I performed the role in Tokyo at the
Kabuki-za in February 1939.  That production likely
toured Osaka around that time.