UNKNOWN ARTISTS

  Undated Postcards #6

Scene from a Kabuki Play

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        [Inviting Signboards]
        Maneki Kanban (美葉会 まねき看板)

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Soganoya Gorô, Advertisement for
        "Golou Geki"

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Osaka Kabuki-za,
        Osaka
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 
 

       
        Soganoya Gorô: Advertisement for
        the Gorô Troupe, Which Played in
        Shinbashi at New Year and Will
        Return to Shinjuku in February

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

Soganoya Gorô: Announcing the
Continuation of the Gorôgeki Troupe
at the Shinbashi Enbujô Theater, with
a Change of Program (Ni no kawari)
on the 20th

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts  
 
 
 
  

       
        Soganoya Gorô: Announcing a
        Change of Program (Ni no kawari)        
        for the Gorôgeki Troupe, Beginning
        on the 20th

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Dancers with Giant Parasol
        Decorated with Rabbits

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        Advertisement for the Gorôgeki
        Troupe with Soganoya Gorô,
        Appearing at the Shinbashi Enbujô
        Theater from May 1

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Votive Paintings (Ema), one for
Soganoya Gorô at the Minamiza

Play: ?
Performance Place:Minami-za,
Kyoto
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

A Thank-you to Fans, from
Soganoya Gorô: Characters for "Full
House" (Ôiri)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

        Play: Yanone (矢の根)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        The Cable Car, Beppu; Manzai
        Dancers

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: collotype printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Sanbasô Dance

        Play: Some Sambasô-mono
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Hat Dance

        Play: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

Message from Soganoya Gorô:
Thank You for the Full House!
(Man'in orei)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        New Year's Card from Soganoya
        Meichô (曽我廼家明蝶): Gosho Ningyô
        Doll with Pestle for Pounding Moch
   
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

       
       
        Play: ?
        Performance Place: Kabuki-za,
        Tokyo
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Collotype printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        Edo-period Dancers with Festival
        Lantern under Full Moon

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

Fuji Musume (藤娘)

Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Fuji Musume (藤娘)

        Play: Fuji Musume (藤娘)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        Ono Sadakurô (斧定九郎)

        Play: Act V of Kanadehon Chushingura
        (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
        Note: This postcard is very similar to a
        bunraku puppet print made by Hasegawa
        Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信) in June 1926.
 
 
 

Hyakushô Yoichibê (百姓 与一兵衛)

Play: Act V of Kanadehon Chushingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
Note: This postcard is very similar to a
bunraku puppet print made by Hasegawa
Sadanobu III (長谷川貞信) in June 1926.
 
 
 
  

       
        Yasha-ô (夜叉王)

        Play: Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

       
        Make-up for Asahina (朝比奈)

        Play: ?
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        [Female Street Musician]
        Torioi (鳥追)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

Dancer

Print Date: pre-1907
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

                   
        Yakko Dako (奴凧)

        Play: Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze
        (奴凧廓春風)
        Performance Place: ?
        Performance Date: ?
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts  
 
 
 
 

Tarôkaja (太郎冠者)
 
[Swindler] Sagi-shi (詐欺師)

Play: Suehirogari (末廣)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
  

                   
        Agemaki (揚巻)
   
        Sukeroku (助六)

        Play: Sukeroku (助六)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

Advertisement for Soganoya Gorô and the Gorôgeki Troupe,
Opening November 18

Play: ?
Performance Place: Misono-za, Nagoya
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

Lion Dancers

Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        Cut-out figures of Chinese opera characters pasted
        sideways to hand-painted postcard of bellflowers in
        moonlight

       
        Print Date: pre-1919
        Artist: ?
        Medium: printed ink with hand-applied and stenciled color
        Image courtesy of the Boston  Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
    
 

                       
        From Soganoya Gorô, a Paper Fortune
        (Tsujiura)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 

Urashima Tarô (浦島太郎)

Play: Urashima (浦島)
Print Date: ?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  

Soga Gorô Tokimune (曾我五郎時致)

Play: Yanone (矢の根)
Print Date: ?       
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 

       
        Stick Puppet of Edo-period Man
        with Lantern, in Festival Costume

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

                           
        [Rakugo Story Titles Arranged in
        Imitation of Sumo Rankings]
        Rakugo Endai mitate banzuke
        (落語演題見立番附); [Advertisement
        for the San'yûha Group at the Eirakukan
        Theater in Kita Shinchi, Osaka] Rakugo
        Endai Mi-ritsu-ban Fu' San'yū-ha Engei-
        ba Kita Shinchi Eiraku-ka (三友派演芸場
        北新地 永楽館)

        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Collotype postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

Envelope for postcard series The
Opera Samson et Dalila

Play: Samson et Dalila
Print Date: ?       
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
  

       
        Sakura Sôgo (佐倉宗吾)

        Play: Sakura Giminden (佐倉義民伝)
        Print Date: ?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Lithographic postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts