MAY 1908

                 
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Shizuka Gozen (静御前)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Kitsune Tadanobu (狐忠信)
 
Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義経千本桜); Retsujo Shikinami (烈女敷浪); 
Futaribakama (二人袴); Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣); Hoken Girahi (保険ぎらひ)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Print Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

               

Play: Tsukishiro (月魄)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 95 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although unidentified, the artist is likely Kubota Beisai
(久保田米斎; 久保田米齋), who designed virtually all of the
covers for Kabuki magazine during this period. 

               

Play: On'na no Nozomi (女の望)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/15/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 95 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although unidentified, the artist is likely Kubota Beisai
(久保田米斎; 久保田米齋), who designed virtually all of the
covers for Kabuki magazine during this period. 

               

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 96 (July 1, 1908)
Personal Collection

               

Play: Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 96 (July 1, 1908)
Personal Collection