APRIL 1923

                    
Murata Masao I (村田正雄) as Oshima (おしま)

Play: Shimizu Jirochō (清水次郎長)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/23
Print Date: 1950 or later
Artist: Ota Gakô (太田雅光)
Series: Meifu Miyage Geki no Omokage
(冥府苞苴劇容彩)  (#6)
Medium: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: It is unclear if this is a woodblock print, a watercolor
drawing, or a hand-colored keyblock print for an
unpublished design.  Masao I died on June 7, 1925 at age 55.
 
 
 
 

Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓);
Sukeroku Sakura no Futae Obi (助六櫻の二重帯)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                 
Plays: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩); Sono Kouta Yume mo Yoshiwara (其小唄夢廓);
Sukeroku Sakura no Futae Obi (助六櫻の二重帯)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Hirakana Seisuiki (ひらがな盛衰記); Tsuchigumo (蜘蛛); Saki Kisô Yuki no Ume ga Ka
(咲競雪梅香); Hideyoshi to Sorori (秀吉と曾呂利)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/01/23
Print Date: 04/1923?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum