ÔSAKA KAOMISE 1717
   
Play title Meryû Oryû Kogane no Uroko  In Japanese
Theater Higashi no Shibai
Producer Arashi San'emon III
Playwrights ???

The kaomise drama "Meryû Oryû Kogane no Uroko" was produced in the 11th lunar month of 1717 [1] in Ôsaka at the Higashi no Shibai by Arashi San'emon III. The opening day was the 1st day of the 11th lunar month of the 2nd year of the Kyôhô era, which was the 3rd of December 1717 in the western calendar. This kaomise program was staged with the following casting:

Code Actors Roles
1 Takashima Onoe Princess Kame
2 Yamamoto Hikogorô Kanebayashi Hyôgo [2]
3 Ôtani Tsuneemon Ôhara Kageyu
4 Takenaka Tôzaburô Nagaoka Chikaranosuke
5 Kirinoya Gonjûrô I Nagaoka Wadaemon
6 Sakurayama Shirosaburô I Kumagai Tsunaemon
7 Sodeshima Ichiya III Otaku
8 Nakata Rokujûrô Ôzuru
9 Uemura Kichiya III Sagoemon's nyôbô Okichi
10 Matsushima Hyôtarô Hikokurô's nyôbô Fujinami
11 Anegawa Shinshirô I Katsuragawa Sagoemon
12 Arashi San'emon III Manmatsu Hikokurô
13 Daimatsu Hyakusuke Tokubê
14 Yamamoto Sakuya I Shigehachi

Others actors who took part in this kaomise program were:

Roles Actors
tachiyaku Sawai Genshirô
Asamatsu Heiemon
katakiyaku Nakagawa Shirôemon
kashagata Somekawa Ubê
oyajigata Fujita Seizaemon
wakaonnagata Izumikawa Sennosuke
Tsugawa Kamon
Onogiri Katsuya
Toyomatsu Manzaburô
Sakurayama Shinobu
Takenaka Sagenji
Ichikawa Otoha
Matsushima Samon I
wakashugata Sakurayama Tomihachi
Sakurayama Kindayû
Ichimura Miyonosuke
Arashi Matsutarô
Arashi Ichijûrô

[1] "I worked on this kaomise page in November 2017, almost 300 years afterwards!" (Shôriya Aragorô)

[2] Kanebayashi or Kanabayashi.

 
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