OCTOBER 1907

               

Play: Aoi no Ue (葵上)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/07
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. 91 (Nov. 1, 1907)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Kishihime Matsukutsu Kagami (岸姫松轡鑑)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/12/07
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. 91 (Nov. 1, 1907)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

              
[Ophelia] Oferiya  (オフェリヤ)

Play: [Hamlet] Hamuretto (はむれっと)
Artist: Kubota Kinsen (久保田金僊)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 1, No. 11 (Nov. 1, 1907)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although this might be an idealized portrait, there was a
production of Hamlet at the Meiji-za in Tokyo that opened on
October 12, 1907.