TAKARABUNE HARU HATSUYUME
(宝船春初夢)

                 
 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記);
Sakamichi Raku (酒道楽); Takarabune Haru Hatsuyume (宝船春初夢)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/14/06
Print Date: 01/16/06
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵) as Nikki Danjô (仁木弾正),  Onoe Baikô VI
(尾上梅幸) as Masaoka (政岡), and  Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Hosokawa Katsumoto
(細川勝元) in Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩).
 

               

Play: Hatsuyume (初夢) [presumably Takarabune Haru
Hatsuyume (宝船春初夢)]
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1909
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. 103 (Feb. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The title for the covers also indicates that plays at the
Kabuki-za, Ichimura-za, and Hongô-za are also depicted.