KYÔTO KAOMISE 1721

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KYÔTO KAOMISE 1721


Play title	Banshiki Kogane no Miyako
Theater	Hoteiya Umenojô's theater
Producer	Hagino Yaegiri
Playwright	???

The kaomise drama "Banshiki Kogane no Miyako" was produced by Hagino Yaegiri at Hoteiya Umenojô's theater in Kyôto in the 11th lunar month of 1721^[1]. It was staged with the following casting:

Code	Actors	Roles
1	Sakakiyama Shirojûrô	Itsukushima Benjirô
2	Tamagawa Sennojô IV	The Itsukushima kôshitsu
3	Uemura Kichiya III	Eboshiya no Okyô
4	Fujioka Daikichi	Ikuemon's nyôbô Naniwa
5	Yamanaka Naojûrô	Harada Ikuemon
6	Hyakunin'isshu Genzaburô	Umezu Mangorô
7	Kanazawa Hikogorô II	Kandori Tomoemon
8	Yamamoto Hikogorô	Shinomiya Tokuemon
9	Okajima Motoemon	Harada Okiemon
10	Bandô Heiroku	The yakko Shinpei
11	Nakajima Saburoshirô	Ukisu Gunpachi
12	Nakamura Shinzaburô	Tonegawa Banryû
13	Somekawa Rokurôzaemon	Togakushi Sekinojô
14	Hagino Yaegiri	Wadaemon's nyôbô Yamanoi
15	Hagino Izaburô I	Tsunegorô
16	Otowa Jirosaburô I	The karô Miwa Wadaemon

The stars^[2] of this kaomise program were:

Actors	Category/Ranking
Otowa Jirosaburô I	tachiyaku jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual]
Hagino Yaegiri	wakaonnagata jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual]

Others actors were Kokon Shinzaemon, Shiozaki Yozaemon, Tominaga Tamagiri and Hagino Hannosuke.

[1] "I worked on this kaomise page in December 2021, 300 years afterwards!" (Shôriya Aragorô)

[2] Our definition of star is a ranking equal or above jô-jô-kichi.

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