YOSHIWARA SUZUME
(吉原雀)
JUNE 1915
Plays: Takao Zange (高尾さんげ); Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島);
Sumidagawa (隅田川);
Yoshiware Suzume (吉原雀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/15
Print Date: 06/1915?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: The cover depicts Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Takao (高尾)
and Ichikawa Kodanji V (市川小団次;
市川小團次) as Date Tsunamune (伊達綱宗) in Takao Zange (高尾さんげ), and Onoe
Matsusuke IV
(尾上松助) as Magoemon (孫右衛門), Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Kamiya Jihei
(紙屋治兵衛), and Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as
Kinokuniya Koharu (紀の国屋小春)
in Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島).
AUGUST 1919
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Tachi Nusubito
(太刀盗人);
Kaîdan Botan Dôrô (怪異談牡丹燈籠); Yoshiwara Suzume (吉原雀)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/19
Print Date: 08/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
DECEMBER 1919
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Honchô
Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝);
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道); Yoshiwara Suzume (教草吉原雀)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
SEPTEMBER 1942
Tori Uri no On'na
(鳥売りの女)
Play: Yoshiwara Suzume
(吉原雀)
Print Date: 09/27/42
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu
III (長谷川貞信)
Series: Kokusui Butô-sen
Tsuki no Maki
(国粋舞踏選 月の巻)
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