APRIL 1920

       
Ôtani Tomoemon VI (大谷友右衛門) as
Kosakabe Hyôbu Motochika
(小坂部兵部元親)
 
Play: Chôkagata Meika no Shimadai
(蝶花形右歌島台)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/02/20
Print Date: 04/1920?
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Series: Chiyo ni Sakaeru Kabuki no Irodori
(千代 栄劇彩)
Personal Collection
 

                    
Cover of play outline (sujigaki)

Play: Kanaya Koume (仮名屋小梅)
Performance Place: Minami--za, Kyoto
Performance Date: 04/08/20
Print Date: 04/1920
Artist: ?
Medium: Offset printed sujigaki
Personal Collection 
 
Note: Most of the cast previously appeared in a
production at the Shintomi-za in Tokyo, which opened
on November 11, 1919.   In addition to Kawai Takeo,
who played Kanaya Koume, the cast in Kyoto included
Kinoshita (木下), Murata Shikibu (村田式部), Takemura
Shin (武村新), Umejima Noboru (梅島昇), Nagoshi
Senzaemon (名越仙左衛門), Takashima Umetarô
(高島梅太郎), Matsumoto Yôjirô (松本要次郎),  and
Shimoda Mô  (下田猛).
 
 
 

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Hojo Tokimasa (北条時政)

Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Yahachirô (屋八郎)
 
Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝)
 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上 梅幸) as Masako-hime (政子姫)
 
Sawamura Sônosuke I (沢村宗之助; 澤村宗之助) as Oshima (お島)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Nagara Ichirōemon (長柄市郎右衛門)
 
Plays: Shiki Sanbasô (式三番); Yoritomo (頼朝); Nimai Ezôshi (二枚繪草紙); Otsue (大津繪)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/20
Print Date: 04/1920?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum