JULY - NOVEMBER 1900 (PARIS EXPOSITION)

Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
Print Date: 05/11/01
Artist: Utagawa Yoshiiku (歌川芳幾)
Personal Collection
       
Note: This was a play based in part on Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺) which Sadayakko performed in the United States
and in Europe between September 1899 and November 1900. 
Presumably, this print was made to commemorate her performance
abroad and/or as a souvenir for purchase during her upcoming
second European tour, which lasted from June 1901 to July 1902. 
Sadayakko and her husband Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) would
eventually perform a version of this play in Tokyo at the Meiji-za in
June 1909 under the title Geisha to Bushi (芸者と武士).  The print
is based on a photograph by the French photographer Paul Nadar
that was used as a color cliché cover for the October 2, 1900 of Le
Théâtre magazine.
 
 
 
 

                                       
                    Sada Yacco, L’Etoile Japonaise

                    Play: The Geisha and The Knight
                    Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
                    Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
                    Published in La Rire #306 (September 15, 1900)
                    Artist: Leonetto Cappiello
                    Medium: Lithograph
                    Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
A L'Exposition: Kawakami et Sada-Yacco au Théatre de la Loie Fuller
Kawakami Sadayakko ((川上貞奴) as Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城)
and
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
Published in La Rire #310 (October 13, 1900)
Artist: Charles Lucien Leandre
Medium: Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Mort de la Geisha
Kawakami Sadayakko ((川上貞奴) as
Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城) and
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
Print Date: 1900
Artist: Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
Medium: Etching
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Mort de la Geisha
Kawakami Sadayakko ((川上貞奴) as
Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城) and
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
Print Date: 1900
Medium: Etching
Personal Collection
 
Note: This appears to be a different (perhaps final?) state.
 
 
 

                   
Mort de la Geisha
Kawakami Sadayakko ((川上貞奴) as
Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城) and
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as
Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Performance Place: Théatre de la Loie Fuller, Paris
Performance Dates: in repertory 07/04/00 - 11/03/00
Artist: Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
Published in Les Musiques Bizarres a l'Exposition
de 1900 by Judith Gautier (1900)
Medium: Colored lithograph book cover
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴)
aka Sada Yacco

Date: 1900
Artist: Alfredo Müller
Medium: Lithographic poster
Image Courtesy of the Kyoto Institute of
Technology