TÔYAMA ZAKURA TENPÔ
NIKKI
(遠山桜天保日記)
TÔYAMA SEIDAN UWASA
SHIRANAMI (遠山政談噂白浪)
NOVEMBER 1911
Plays: Kitasaga Yami Idomu (北嵯峨闇挑); Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪);
Kokusen'ya Gojitsu Gassen (国性爺後日合戦); Tôyama Zakura Tenpô Nikki
(遠山桜天保日記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/11
Print Date: 11/21/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次; 市川小團次) as
Enpin-ô Kokuseiya
(延平王国性爺) and Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左団次; 市川左團次) as Rôichikan (老一官)
in Kokusen'ya
Gojitsu Gassen (国性爺後日合戦); and Sawamura Gennosuke IV (沢村源之助; 澤村源之助)
as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke (辨天小僧菊之助) in Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami
(弁天娘女男白浪).
JANUARY 1926
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Ikuta Kakudayû (生田角太夫)
Play: Tôyama Seidan Uwasa Shiranami (遠山政談噂白浪),
a version of Tôyama Zakura Tenpô Nikki (遠山桜天保日記)
Performance Place: Asakusa Shokaku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/26
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集) (#21)
*Personal Collection