SHIRABYÔSHI KAMI-Ô
(白拍子祇王)

                 
 
Plays: Shirabyôshi Kami-ô (白拍子祇王); Hirakana
Seisuiki (ひら仮名盛衰記); Gojôbashi (五条橋);
Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); 
Hanakura Tai Amigasa (花競対編笠)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/12
Print Date: 04/10/12
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
Note: The cover depicts Kataoka Nizaemon XI
(片岡仁左衛門) as Kajiwara Genta Kagesue
(梶原源太景季),  Nakamura Utaemon V
(中村歌右衛門) as Chidori (千鳥), and  Ichimura
Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kajiwara Heiji
Kagetaka (梶原平次景高) in Hirakana Seisuiki
(ひら仮名盛衰記).
 

 
 

               
[April at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Shigatsu (歌舞伎座の四月)

Play: Gojôbashi (五条橋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/10/12
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. 143 (May 1, 1912)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The other plays on the April bill were Shirabyôshi Kami-ô
(白拍子祇王); Hirakana Seisuiki (ひら仮名盛衰記);  Futatsu
Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); and Hanakura Tai
Amigasa (花競対編笠).