[Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)

[CARMEN] KARUMEN
(カルメン)

NOVEMBER 1916

[Habanera Song] Habanera no Uta (ハバネラの歌)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 11/08/16
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Machine printed? sheet music cover
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

Note: Senô Gakufu (セノオ楽譜) No. 28.

JANUARY 1919

Matsui Sumako (松須磨子) as [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
[Song of Carmen] Karumen no Uta (カルメンの唄)

Play: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Peformance Place: Yûraku-za (有楽座), Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/19
Print Date: 1919
Artist: Okamoto Kiichi (岡本歸一; 岡本帰一)
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
Personal Collection

SEPTEMBER 1919

Plays: Aîda (アイーダ); Tsubaki Hime [La Traviata] (椿姫); Fuausuto [Faust] (フアウスト);
Karumen [Carmen] (カルメン); Borisu Godonofu [Boris Gudunov] (ボリス・ゴドノフ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithgraph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

FEBRUARY 1921

Matsui Sumako (松須磨子) as [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
[Song of Carmen] Karumen no Uta (カルメンの唄)

Play: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Peformance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Okamoto Kiichi (岡本歸一; 岡本帰一)
Print Date: 02/27/21 (original publication date; this copy dated 05/05/22)
Medium: Woodblock? printed sheet music cover
Personal Collection

Note: Okamoto Kiichi also designed a 1919 sheet music
cover that featured the actress Matsui Sumako. It is
unclear if Matsui Sumako (who died in 1919) was also
the model for this design, if it reflects a different actress
who performed the role in the late 1920 or 1921, or, most
likely, if it is an idealized portrait.

SEPTEMBER 1921

Operas: [Faust] Fausuto (ファウスト); [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン); [The Barber of Seville]
Severu no Rihatsushi (セヴェルの理髪師); [Tosca] Tosuka (トスカ); [I Pagliacci] Dôkeshi (道化師);
[Love In The Moonlight] Gekka no Ai (月下の愛); [Rigoletto] Rigoretto (リゴレット); [Romeo And
Juliet] Romeo to Jurietto (ロミオとジュリエット); [Il Trovatore] Torobatôre (トロバトーレ);
[Thaïs] Taisu (タイス); [La Boheme] Ra Boêmu (ラ・ボエーム); [Mignon] Miniyon (ミニヨン)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/21/21 - 09/29/21
Print Date: 09/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center

Operas: [Faust] Fausuto (ファウスト); [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン); [The Barber of Seville]
Severu no Rihatsushi (セヴェルの理髪師); [Tosca] Tosuka (トスカ); [I Pagliacci] Dôkeshi (道化師);
[Love In The Moonlight] Gekka no Ai (月下の愛); [Rigoletto] Rigoretto (リゴレット); [Romeo And Juliet]
Romeo to Jurietto (ロミオとジュリエット); [Il Trovatore] Torobatôre (トロバトーレ);
[Thaïs] Taisu (タイス); [La Boheme] Ra Boêmu (ラ・ボエーム); [Mignon] Miniyon (ミニヨン)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/21/21 - 09/29/21
Print Date: 09/1921?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center

1922

[Gypsy Song] Jipushî no Uta (ジプシーの歌)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Lithographic sheet music cover
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten

Note: Senô Ongaku Shubbansha Sôrudoauto
(セノオ音楽出版社) No. 153.

MARCH 1925

Operas: Il Trovatore; Faust; La Traviata; Aida; Cavalleria Rusticana; I Pagliacci; Rigoletto;
Madame Butterfly; The Barber of Seville; Carmen; La Boheme; Ernani; Tosca; La Gioconda; Otello
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10-19/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

MARCH 1926

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madame
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda; Faust
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10-29/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.

SEPTEMBER 1926

Operas: Aida; Faust; Carmen; Boris Gudonov; Eugene Onegin; The Tales of Hoffman; Rigoletto;
The Demon; The Queen of Spades
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/21-30/26
Print Date: 09/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithographic printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera. Although it is not entirely clear, I believe the cover
depicts the interior of the Teikoku Gekijô.

MARCH 1927

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madam
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10-29/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.

APRIL 1927

Operas: The Tales of Hoffman; Carmen; Khovanschina; Faust; Samson and Delilah;
Boris Godunov; Lakmé; Sadko
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/26/27 - 05/05/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera.

MARCH 1928

カルメン (Carmen)

Publication: HANGA, 第 13 輯
Date: March 31, 1928
Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: A color version can be found in a
February 1, 1929 issue of a different
magazine, 版画 [Hanga].

UNKNOWN MONTH 1928

[Carment] Karumen (カルメン)

Opera: [Carment] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1928
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)

Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.

FEBRUARY 1929

歌劇カルメン (Opera Carmen)

Publication: 版画 [Hanga], 第 1 号
Date: February 1, 1929
Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: The black and white version was issued in a
different magazine in March 1928.

MARCH 1929

Operas: Il Trovatore; Tosca; Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata; Carmen; La Boheme; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; The Barber of Seville; Lucia di Lammermoor; The Tales Of Hoffman; La Gioconda;
Manon Lescaut; Ballo in Maschera; La Sonnambula
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16-30/29
Print Date: 03/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? flyer art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.

1933

Act I (第一幕）

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther

Act II (第二幕）

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther

Act III (第三幕）

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)

Act IV (第四幕）

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)

[Carmen Toy Print] Karumen Omacha-e (カルメン玩具絵)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther

DECEMBER 1934

[Cover] Hyôshi (表紙)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

[Title Page] Tobira (扉)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

Act I (一幕)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

Act II (二幕)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

Act III (三幕)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

Act IV (四幕)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

[Colophon] Okutsuke (奥付)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 12/1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in [Woodblock Book Carmen]
Hanga Ehon Carmen (版画絵本カルメン)
Medium: Machine printed woodblock printed book
Image courtesy of OsakaPrints.com

1936

[Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1936
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)

Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.

1938

[Baguenaudier]
Kyûrenkan (九連環)

Opera: [Carmen]
Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: c. 1938

Artist: Takehisa Yumeji
(竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of
Yamada Shoten

1955

Carmen, Escamillo, and Jose

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: 1955
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)

Note: It is unclear if this print was issued in color or not.

UNKNOWN DATES

[Carmen Theatrer]

Print Date: ? (ed. 50)
Artist: Hosoya Masayuki (細谷正之)
Medium: Linocut
Image courtesy of the Ren Brown Collection

[Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)

Opera: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: Given the subject matter, this print was likely made circa 1933-1934.