ÔSAKA KAOMISE 1717


Play title	Benten Chôja Uga no Tama
Theater	Kado no Shibai
Producer	Ogino Kinnojô
Playwright	Kyôya Yagoshirô

The kaomise drama "Benten Chôja Uga no Tama" was produced in the 11th lunar month of 1717^[1] in Ôsaka at the Kado no Shibai by Ogino Kinnojô. 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	Hagino Sayonosuke	The kamuro Moshio
2	Ôshima Kajûrô	Orose no Manza
3	Ogino Kinnojô	The keisei Mikasa
4	Sanogawa Hanazuma I	The keisei Kasugano
5	Morita Yasaburô	Bannojô
6	Kanazawa Hikogorô I	Gunzaemon
7	Fujimura Oginojô	Tanba Otomi^[2]
8	Yoshida Jûrobê II	Zennojô
9	Fujita Bunzaemon	The Amakawa kôshitsu
10	Sodesaki Wakaura I	The Kyôto woman Omoto
11	Iwai Hanshirô III	Torii Nagaonosuke
12	Toyoda Dan'emon	The karô Taema Daigaku
13	Yoshizawa Tamazuma	Miwa-no-Mae
14	Nakamura Shingorô I	Amakawa Kinzô
15	Ôtori Michiemon	Ôe no Hyôgo^[3]
16	Shinozuka Jirozaemon I	Karatsuma Tadaemon

Others actors who took part in this kaomise program were:

Roles	Actors
tachiyaku	Yanagawa Sôzaemon Mitsuyama Genzaemon Yoshida Taemon
katakiyaku	Shinozuka Jûzaemon
dôkegata	Tanimatsu Heisuke
oyajigata	Hirakawa Chûzaemon
wakaonnagata	Tomizawa Samanosuke II Fujikawa Shômatsu Ono Matsusaburô Fujimura Katsutarô Hagino Umenosuke Mizuki Kichitarô Sanogawa Jinnosuke Onogiri Katsusaburô Fujii Hanamatsu Yoshizawa Miyako
wakashugata	Hanagiri Sentarô Hagino Handayû Yoshizawa Somegorô Sanogawa Kuramatsu

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

[2] Otomi from the Province of Tanba.

[3] A role popularized by Kataoka Nizaemon I in Kyôto.