UNKNOWN ARTIST

1913

           
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Yakko-Dako (奴凧)

Play: Yakko-Dako Haru Muneage
(奴凧春棟上)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/02/13
Print Date: 01/1913?
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
   
Note: Kikugorô VI also performed
this role at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo
in January 1907.  I cannot rule out
the possibility that this print
reflects that earlier performance.
 
 
 

Oxen as Manzai Performers

Print Date: 1913
Artist: ?
Medium: Lithographic postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

                 
W. B. Steel as Dick Deadeye
 
G. G. Brady as the Learned Judge
 
Plays: [Trial By Jury] Baishin Saiban (陪審裁判); [H.M.S. Pinafore] Gunkan Pinafuôa (軍艦ピナフオーア)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/13 - 02/28/13
Print Date: 02/1913?
Medium: Machine lithographic printed? program cover art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Amateur Dramatic Club of Yokohama
 
 

                 
Soganoya Gorô (曾我廼家五郎) as ?
 
Soganoya Choroku (曾我廼家蝶六) as ?
 
Plays: Tamabôki (玉箒); Shiraki Men (白木綿); Aoi no Kôro (葵の香爐); Ukamuse (浮む瀬);
Yomigaeri (よみがえり)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/08/13
Print Date: 03/1913?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Katô Seiichi (加藤精一) as [Julius Caesar] Juriyasu, Shîzâ (ジュリヤス、シーザー)
 
Plays: [Julius Caesar] Juriyasu, Shîzâ (ジュリヤス、シーザー)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   06/26/13
Print Date: 06/1913?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

                               
                Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左團次) as
                Itaria Hito Kanpatsutêsu (伊太利人カンパツテース)
 
                Play: [Christian Residence] Kirishitan Yashiki (切支丹屋敷)
                Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 05/03/13
                Print Date: 06/01/13
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Lithograph
                Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
                Vol. 7, No. 6 (June 1, 1913)
                Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

                 
Matsui Sumako (松井 須磨子) as
Monna Wan'na [Monna Vanna] (モンナ・ワ゛ンナ)
 
Plays: Naibu (内部); Monna Wan'na [Monna Vanna] (モンナ・ワ゛ンナ)
Performance Place: Yuraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/19/13
Print Date: 09/1913?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki deisgn
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                 
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Erekutora [Electra] (エレクトラ)
 
Plays: Makubesu [Macbeth] no Keiko (マクベスの稽古); Cha o Tsukuru Ie (茶を作る家);
Erekutora [Electra] (エレクトラ); On'nagata (女がた)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/01/13
Print Date: 10/1913?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Akuma no Deshi [The Devil's Disciple] (悪魔の弟子); Maketaru Hito (負けたる人)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/28/13
Print Date: 11/1913?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as
Arajishi Otokonosuke (荒獅男之助)

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/02/13
Print Date: 12/1913
Personal Collection

Note: The seller had attributed this print to Natori Shunsen. 
Given that it is unsigned and stylized, it is difficult to say
with any certainty who the artist is.  Moreover, the same
seller also erroneously attributed certain other prints to
Shunsen.  If it were by Shunsen,  it would be among the
earliest of Shunsen's prints.

                               
                [Painted Stage Scenery] Ga Karetau Butai Men (画かれたう舞臺面)
 
                Play: Bunroku Samurai Katagi (文禄侍氣質)
                Performance Place: Tekoku Gekijô, Tokyo
                Performance Date: 12/02/13
                Print Date: 01/01/14
                Artist: ?
                Medium: Lithograph of a watercolor
                Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
                Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1914)
                Image courtesy of the University of California