COUNTRY THEATER  [INAKA SHIBAI]
(いなか芝居)

               
[Country Play]  Inaka No Shibai (田舎の芝居)
[Performing Arts Caricatures] Engei Fûshiga (演藝諷刺畫)

Artist: Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤樂天)
Medium: Lithograph
Published: Illustration to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 3, No. 10 (Sept. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: A color version of this image is not available at this time.
 
 

               
[Village Play] Mura Shibai (村芝居)
 
Artist: Hayashi Ryokusui (林緑水)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 5, No. 9 (Sept. 1, 1911)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

[Country Play] Inaka Shibai (田舎芝居)

Print Date: 1950
Artist: Yamaguchi Susumu (山口益)
Publication: Ichimoku-shu (一木集), Vol. 6
Personal Collection
 
Note: The "Ichimoku-kai" was a small sosaku-hanga artists group
established by Koshiro Onchi in 1939.  They decided to publish a group
folio on and off every year from 1944 through 1950s.
 
 
 
 

[Country Theatre] Inaka Shibai (いなか芝居)

Print Date: 1992 (ed. 100)
Artist: Nomura Takaaki (野村たかあき)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com