KYÔTO 1720

KYÔTO NI-NO-KAWARI 1720


Play title	Keisei Kaname no Ishi
Theater	Nakamura Hatsudayû's theater
Producer	Sawamura Chôjûrô I
Playwright	Adachi Saburôzaemon^[1]

The new year ni-no-kawari "Keisei Kaname no Ishi" was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1720^[2] in Kyôto at Nakamura Hatsudayû's theater with the following casting:

Code	Actors	Roles
1	Uemura Kichiya III	The keisei Miyoshino
2	Ôshima Monnosuke	Yakichi
3	Nakamura Mikiemon	Noto Shinzô
4	Onogawa Ugenji	Iwami Tanbê
5	Iwai Izaemon	The wakadono Kuratarô
6	Sawamura Chôjûrô I	Sengoku Jûemon
7	Nanboku Sabu II	Utsuemon
8	Ogino Yaegiri I	The keisei Michinoku
9	Sawamura Chôjûrô I	Sengoku Jûemon dressed in kamiko
10	Sawamura Chôjûrô I	Sengoku Jûemon
11	Ôshima Kajûrô	Takayasu Dennai
12	Arashi Kanshirô I	The karô Takayasu Rokurozaemon
13	Matsumoto Shigemaki	Takayasu Rokurozaemon's nyôbô Tatsuta
14	Okajima Motoemon	Manzaemon
15	Ogino Yaegiri I	The keisei Michinoku

[1] Not reported in the 1st volume of "Kabuki Nenpyô" but high probability as Adachi Saburôzaemon was the sakusha for the kaomise drama "Yamato Ôji Meoto Izumi" which was staged at Nakamura Hatsudayû's theater in the 12th lunar month of 1719.

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