UNKNOWN ARTIST

1938





JANUARY 1938

           
New Year's Card from Soganoya
Gorô: Cage for a Tiger

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 
 




Libretto for "Tiger Hunting," with
Shamisen Pick

Song: Tora Kari (虎狩)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

FEBRUARY

                    
Plays:  Chirei (地霊); Shinpan Futasujimichi (新版二筋道); Orokanaru Haha ( 愚かなる母)  
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/04/38
Print Date: 02/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



                    
Play: [Ghosts] Yûrei (幽霊)
Performance Place: Tsukiji Shôgekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/05-15/38
Print Date: 02/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? flyer art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 



JUNE


Plays:  Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Iro Moyô Chotto Karimame (色彩間苅豆);
Imashimegusa Inga Banashi (誡種因果噺); Kosode Monogurui (小袖物狂ひ);
Utamakura Genji no Edozome (歌枕源氏紫);  Gojôbashi (五条橋)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/01/38
Print Date: 06/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



JULY


Plays:  Ii Yôhô Tsuizen (伊井蓉峰追善); Onogatsumi (己が罪); Gouu (豪雨); Yushima Môde (湯島詣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/01/38
Print Date: 07/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



AUGUST

                    
Plays: Yaokyû (八百久); Noboru Suigin (騰る水銀); Menami Onami (女波男波); Hisago no Sake (瓢の酒)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/31/38
Print Date: 07/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 




Plays:  Mukan Madamu (無閑マダム); Moaibune (最合船); Manshû Rakudo no Yume (満州楽土の夢);
Tonari Awase (隣り合せ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  08/16/38
Print Date: 08/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



SEPTEMBER


Plays:  Kiratsune 吉良常); Shimbashi Geisha no Hajimari (新橋芸者のはじまり); Katei Nikki (家庭日記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/03/38
Print Date: 09/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 



OCTOBER


Plays:  Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/01/38
Print Date: 10/1938?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library
 
 
 





       
        Advertisement for Gorôgeki (Troupe
        of Soganoya Gorô)

        Plays: Uji no Sato (宇治の里); Hana
        Kara Chô-chin (鼻から提灯); Ai(愛);
        Hôgetsu no Yoru (抱月の夜)
        Performance Place: Shinbashi
        Enbujô, Tokyo
        Performance Date: 10/15//38
        Print Date: 1938
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts 
 
 
 
 
 



UNKNOWN MONTH 


Soganoya Goro, Thanks for the
Success of Our Performance at the
Shinbashi Theater, with Framing
Design of Posters Reading "Full
House" (Ôiri)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1938
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts