ÔSAKA KAOMISE 1717


Play title	Meryû Oryû Kogane no Uroko
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.