NISSAY THEATRE

City

Tôkyô

Owner

Nissay Culture Foundation

Website

www.nissaytheatre.or.jp

History

1963: opening of the Nissay Theatre in the district of Yurakuchô, Chiyoda-ku (Tôkyô).

January 1964: revival at the Nissay Theatre of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's spectacular drama "Kin no Zai Sarushima Dairi", which is produced by Takechi Tetsuji and staged with the following casting:

Roles	Actors
The musume Okiyo (in reality Princess Kiyo), Fujiwara no Tadabumi, the shirabyôshi Hanako (in reality the ghost of Princess Kiyo), the kyôgenshi Masuroku (in reality the ghost of Tadabumi)	Ichikawa Ennosuke III
Kitashirakawa no Anchin, in reality Minamoto no Raikô	Bandô Tsurunosuke IV
Tawara no Tôta Hidesato	Kataoka Nizaemon XIII
The kôshitsu Nyogetsuni	Onoe Taganojô III
Taira no Masakado's sister Princess Nanaaya	Sawamura Yoshijirô IV
The boatman Kinzô	Tonegawa Kinjûrô

The roles of the priest Hakuunbô and Kokuunbô are played by the kyôgenshi Shigeyama Shime and Shigeyama Sennojô.

Outside the Nissay Theatre