Great title sign - Oonadaikanban

Japanese: 大名題看板 - おおなだいかんばん

〘 noun 〙 A signboard with a daimyo-dai (title) written on it and hung in front of a theater. In Edo, the outer title was written in large letters in the Kanteiryu style on a large signboard over 15 shaku in size, the narration was written above it, and the performers of the troupe were depicted in pictures, with the troupe's family crest hammered into the metal fittings at each of the four corners. In Kamigata, it is called a single signboard. Daimyo-dai. *Gekijyo Shinwa (c. 1804-09), Vol. 1 "Around the 25th, the daimyo-dai signboard will be hung."

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Japanese:

〘名〙大名題①を書いて、劇場の表に掲げる看板。江戸では一丈五尺余の大看板に外題を勘亭流で大書し、その上に語りを書き、さらに一座の立者を絵組みであらわし、四すみに座の定紋の金物を打った。上方では一枚看板という。大名題。※劇場新話（1804‐09頃）上「廿五日頃、大名題看板を出す」

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