KYÔTO 1720

KYÔTO NI-NO-KAWARI 1720


Play title	Keisei Mizoro-ga-Ike
Theater	Ebisuya Kichirôbê's theater
Producer	Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I
Playwrights	Sakakiyama Kansuke I^[1]

The new year ni-no-kawari "Keisei Mizoro-ga-Ike" was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1720^[2] in Kyôto at Ebisuya Kichirôbê's theater with the following casting:

Code	Actors	Roles
1	Yashio Ikuemon	Kutsuwa Gonkurô
2	Sakakiyama Shirotarô I	Yada Gorô
3	Ichimura Katsura	The keisei Handayû
4	Yamamoto Koshikibu	The wakadono Montarô
5	Matsushima Moheiji	The ahô Mosuke
6	Sakakiyama Koshirô I	Kumagai Hanroku
7	Kirinami Takie	Sanzaemon's goke Koyano
8	Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I	Tachibana Kamonnosuke
9	Yamamura Utanosuke	Chisato-no-Mae
10	Asao Shichirôji	The jûji of the Komachi Temple
11	Bandô Matajûrô I	The evil priest Kanzôbô
12	Yamada Jinpachi	The priest Unsaibô
13	Yamamura Kazaemon	Lord Tachibana Minbu
14	Ichikawa Toyama III	Tachibana Minbu's midaidokoro dressed as a beggar (kojiki)
15	Sakakiyama Koshirô I	Kumagai Hanroku
16	Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I	Tachibana Kamonnosuke

The opening day was the 15th day of the 1st lunar month of the 5th year of the Kyôhô era, which was the 22nd of February 1720 in the western calendar.

[1] Not reported in the 1st volume of "Kabuki Nenpyô" but high probability as Sakakiyama Kansuke I was the sakusha for the kaomise drama "Hôraisan Hiyoku no Tsurukame" which was staged at Ebisuya Kichirôbê's theater in the 11th lunar month of 1719.

[2] "I worked on this kaomise page in February 2020, 300 years afterwards!" (Shôriya Aragorô)