KYÔTO KAOMISE 1718


Play title	Meoto Matsu Jufuku no Kodane
Theater	Miyako Handayû's theater
Producer	Miyako Handayû
Playwright	Sadoshima Saburôzaemon

The kaomise drama "Meoto Matsu Jufuku no Kodane" was produced in the 11th lunar month of 1718^[1] in Ôsaka at Miyako Handayû's theater by Miyako Handayû himself (he was both nadai and zamoto). The opening day was the 28th day of the 11th lunar month of the 3rd year of the Kyôhô era, which was the 18th of January 1719 in the western calendar. This kaomise program was staged with the following casting:

Code	Actors	Roles
1	Tamekawa Kohyôe	Kunitama's okugata
2	Izumikawa Jûgorô	Yoshimi Ukyô
3	Bandô Hikosaburô I	Murase Mikinojô
4	Miyazaki Giheita	Kunihei, in reality Murase Hachirôzaemon^[2]
5	Yoshioka Saburôsuke	Kakunojô
6	Yamashita Kamenojô I	Princess Take^[3]
7	Mihogi Gizaemon I	Takehara Hyôbu Saemon
8	Tamagawa Genzaburô	Dekinoshin
9	Yamamoto Kamon	Otomi
10	Kaneko Kichizaemon	Yada Wadaemon^[4]
11	Otowa Jirosaburô I	Sakuma Gorojirô
12	Kiyosaki Handayû	Gorojirô's wife Katsu
13	Hyakuninshu Genzaburô	Tada Monjûrô

Others actors who took part in this kaomise program were:

Roles	Actors
tachiyaku	Kiriyama Sôshichi Fujita Kuhachirô Kaneko Monjûrô
dôkegata	Fukuyama Matagorô
oyajigata	Shiozaki Yozaemon
kashagata	Fujishima Chôzaemon
wakaonnagata	Nakamura Tsunehachi Hanagaki Matsunosuke Onoe Komurasaki I
wakashugata	Hayakawa Kokatsu Miyazaki Momotarô Kikukawa Kyônosuke Yoshizawa Takegorô

[1] "I worked on this kaomise page in December 2018, almost 300 years afterwards!" (Shôriya Aragorô)

[2] Murase Hachirôzaemon or Murase Hachirozaemon.

[3] Take-hime. Literally Princess Bamboo.

[4] Yada Wadaemon or Yata Wadaemon or Hatta Wadaemon. 3 possible readings. We prefer Yada Wadaemon.