ICHIMURAZA SOGAMONO 1762


Play titles	Nokon no Yuki Katsuiro Soga
Theater	Ichimuraza
Producers	Ichimura Uzaemon VIII Ichimura Kamezô I
Playwrights	Horikoshi Nisôji I, Sawai Chûzô, Azuma Sôsuke, Matsui Seizô, Horikoshi Heijûrô

The new year sogamono drama "Nokon no Yuki Katsuiro Soga" was produced by Ichimura Uzaemon VIII and Ichimura Kamezô I and was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1762 in Edo at the Ichimuraza with the following casting:

Code	Actors	Roles
1	Ôtani Oniji II	Kobayashi no Asahina
2	Bandô Matatarô IV	Ômi no Kotôta
3	Hanakawa Ichinojô	Osome's mother
4	???	Osome
5	Ichimura Kamezô I	Yamagaya Sashirô, in reality Tôta's son Ôtonai
6	Sawamura Sôjûrô II	Kyô no Jirô
7	Bandô Hikosaburô II	Soga Gorô Tokimune
8	Sawamura Sôjûrô II	Kudô Saemon Suketsune
9	Onoe Kikugorô I	The ghost of Kawazu
10	Segawa Kikunojô II	Shiaku Tôta's wife Chidori
11	Onoe Kikugorô I	Oniô Shinzaemon
12	Osagawa Tsuneyo I	Tsukisayo
13	Nakamura Sukegorô I	Kagekiyo
14	Nakajima Mihozô I	Dainichibô
15	Segawa Kikunojô II	Hisamatsu, in reality Chidori
16	Azuma Tôzô II	The courtesan Ôiso no Tora (Jûrô's lover)
17	Nakamura Sukegorô I	The rice merchant Shichibyôe (in reality Kagekiyo in disguise)
18	Ichimura Kamezô I	Soga Jûrô Sukenari

"Nokon no Yuki Katsuiro Soga" mixed two sekai: it was a sogamono and a osome-hisamatsumono.

Bandô Hikosaburô II, Onoe Kikugorô I and Nakajima Mihozô I also played the roles of Soga no Hakoômaru, Sasaki Moritsuna and Araoka Genta.

The opening day was the 20th day of the 1st lunar month of the 12th year of the Hôreki era (1762), which was the 13th of February 1762 in the western calendar.