OCTOBER 1909



                 
Ichikawa Komazô VIII (市川高麗蔵) as Tamiya Iemon (民谷伊右衛門)
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢 )
  
Onoe Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Aburaya Okon (油屋おこん; 油屋お紺)

Plays: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵); Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談);
Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Tôkyô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
Print Date: 10/11/09
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada III (歌川国貞)
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





                 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Koeda (小枝)
 
Ichikawa Yaozô VII (市川八百蔵)) as Kiyomori (清盛)
 
Play: Kyôgashima Musume no Ikenie (経島娘生贄); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sanzen Ryô Omoni no Shûku Tsugi (三千兩重荷宿継); Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来);
Shinobi Yoru Koi no Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/09
Print Date: 10/03/09
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 





               
Kabukiza (歌舞伎座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/09
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. 112 (Nov. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the October bill were Kyôgashima Musume
no Ikenie (経島娘生贄); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sanzen Ryô Omoni no Shûku Tsugi (三千兩重荷宿継); Koi
Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来); and Shinobi Yoru Koi no
Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者).
 
 




               
Tokyoza (東京座)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵); Katamigusa
Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談); Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
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. 112 (Nov. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 




               
[Tokyo Theater October Madness (as seen by a Cartoonist)]
Tôkyô-za Jū-tsuki Kyô (Mangaka no Mitaru)
[Performing Arts Caricatures] Engei Fûshiga (演藝諷刺畫)
 
? as ?
 
? as ?
 
Ichimura Uzaemon XV (市村羽左衛門) as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡貢)
  
Plays: ?; Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃); ?
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
Artist: Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤樂天)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Illustration to Engei Gahô
Vol. 3, No. 12 (Nov. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Also on the bill were Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵); Michiyuki Tabiji no
Hanamuko (道行旅路花聟); and Katamigusa Yotsuya Kaidan
(形見草四谷怪談).
 




               
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbei (亀屋忠兵衛)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1909
Artist: Arai Hakuchi (新井白雉)
Medium: Offset print?
Published: Illustration to Engei Kurabu (演芸倶楽部),
Vol. 3, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1914)
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center
 
Note: This print could reflect a regional performance.  The most '
recent one I could find was at the Suehiroza in Nagoya in March 1912.