DRESSING ROOMS/BACKSTAGE [GAKUYA]
(楽屋)

                
Sakagami (逆髪)
 
Semimaru (蝉丸)

Play: Semimaru (蝉丸)
Print Date: 10/05/97
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#32]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 

                
[Lady Gu-shi]
 
[Ghost of Kôu [Hsiang Yu]
Kôu no Bôrei (項羽の亡霊)

Play: Kôu (項羽)
Print Date: 08/20/98
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue (能楽図絵) [#86]
Image courtesy of the University of Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 

                
[Backstage during a performance of Asagao]
[Spirit of the Morning Glory] 
Asagao no Sei (朝顔の精)

Play:  Asagao (朝顔)
Print Date: 05/05/02
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue
(能楽図絵) [#243]
*Image courtesy of the Kokuritsu Nôgakudô
 


 

                
                
[New Engraving Lantern Stage Attachment No. 1]
Shinkoku-gumi Age Tôrô Butai Tsukumono Dai Icho Gou
(新刻組上ケ燈篭舞台附物 第壱號)

Print Date: 05/12/02
Artist: Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library
 


 

 
[Theater Dressing Room] Gekijô Gakuya (劇場楽屋)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1903
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asia Art
 
Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
 

                
               
 
                Play: ?
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 03/26/03
 
                Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
                it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
                design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
                Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
           
 
 
 
 

 
[Theater Dressing Room] Gekijô Gakuya (劇場楽屋)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1908
Image courtesy of Fuji Arts
 
Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.   The date
of this print has not been independently verified.   Similar prints
were issued in March 1903.  A similar design from 1902 was
attributed by Kunitachi College of Music Library to Tsukioka
Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
 
 
 

[In a Provincial Chinese Theatre]
In Einem Chinesischen Provinztheater

Print Date: 1912
Artist: Emil Orlik
Medium: Drypoint etching
Series: Plate 8 of Zuhorer und Zuschauer (1923), #59/100
Personal Collection
 

                 
[Backstage at the Bunraku-za]
Bungakuza no gakuya  (文楽座の楽屋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                   
[Backstage at the Bunraku-za]
Bungakuza no gakuya  (文楽座の楽屋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Original Print Date: 1914
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).
 
 
 
 
 

                   
[Bunraku-za Dressing Room aka Puppets Hanging in the
Greenroom of the Bunraku Theater, Osaka]
Bunrakuza Gakuya (文楽座楽屋)

Performance Place: Bunraku-za, Osaka
Print Date: 1919
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art
 
 

                   
Mayuzumi [Eyebrow Pencil] (眉墨)

Print Date: 01/1928
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
*Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: The subject is presumably an actress or a dancer, as she is
wearing a grip or headband typically used to help hold a wig in
place.
 
 
 
 

   
Cover for Ukiyoe no Kao

Print Date: 06/25/29
Artist: Yoshikawa Kanpô (吉川観方)
Publication: [Faces of Ukiyo-e] Ukiyoe no Kao (浮世絵の顔)
Medium: Printed cloth book cover
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

? in Gakuya [Backstage] (楽屋)

Print Date: 1932
Artist: Ishii Hakutei (石井柏亭)
Series: Gendai Nyonin Jûnisugata )現代女人十二姿)
 
 
 

[A Corner of the Dressing Room] Gakuya no Ichigû ( 楽屋の一隅)

Published in Shin Hanga (新版画), Vol. 7 (January 1, 1933)
Artist: Suzuki Takeo (鈴木健夫)
Personal Collection
 
 
 

                   
Avant L'Audience

Print Date: 04/15/42
Artist: Paul Jacoulet
Series: Bat Series
Image courtesy of the USC Pacific Asia Museum
 
 
 

[Waiting to Go On] Shutsu o matsu (出を待つ)　.
 
Print Date: 1946
Artist: Fuse Shôshun (布施長春)
 

 

                 
[[Yoshida] Bungorô in the Dressing Room
[aka Yoshida Bungorô in the Green Room]
Gakuya no Bungorô-zô (楽屋 の[吉田]文五郎像)

Play: ?
Print Date:  1947
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is an early, pre-edition state with Zyun Sekino signature.
 
 

                 
[Onnagata's Kabuki Dressing Room
aka Preparing for Performance]
Kabuki Gakuya no Onnagata (歌舞伎楽屋の女形)

Print Date:  1948
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Collection of John Fiorillo
 
 
 

                   
[Behind the Stage] Butaiura (舞台裏)

Print Date: 1949
Artist: Kitaoka Fumio (北岡文雄)
Series:  [Post-War Life and Customs] Sengo Fûzoku (戦後風俗)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This print was included in the album [The Face of Tokyo] Tokyo no
Kao (東京の顔) No. 4.  It is not known at this time if the design was
reprinted for that album.  The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
dates its album copy to 1951, and other copies are known to exist with a
1950 pencil date.  However, it is possible that the 1950 date is not in
Kitaoka Fumio's hand but (erroneously) added later by a dealer based on
the fact that the first three volumes of that album were published in 1950.
 
 
 

                   
Gakuya [Backstage] (楽屋)

Print Date: 05/1955
Artist: Itô Shinsui (伊東深水)
*Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Victoria
 
 
 
 

                   
[Noh Players] Nôgaku-shi (能楽師)

Print Date: 09/1955
Artist: Wada Sanzo (和田三造)
Series: [Compendium of Occupations in the Shôwa Era]
Shôwa Shokugyô E-Zukushi (昭和職業繪盡) (Series 3)
Image courtesy of the Omni Gallery
 
Note:  This first edition print was published by Kyoto Hangain in an edition of 200.
 
 
 

                 
[Before Going On Stage (Two Ayukos)]
De no Mae (Futari Ayuko) (出の前（二人鮎子）)

Date: 1972
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of Scriptum Fine Japanese Prints
 
 

                 
[Waiting to Go on Stage
(Ryûkyû Dancer Sato Takeko Portrait)]
Shutsu o Matsu (Ryûkyû Buyô-ka Satô Takako-zô) 
(出を待つ（琉球舞踊家佐藤太圭子像）)

Date: 1973
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirô (関野準一郎)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 

                 
Metamorphosis

Print Date: 1978 (ed. 35)
Artist: Yayanagi Gô (矢柳 剛)
Series: Tomasaburô (玉三郎)
Medium: Silkscreen
Image courtesy of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
 
 
 

                 
[Rich and Luminous Color] Tsuya (艶)

Print Date:  1984
Artist: Sewai Koichi (瀬和居孝一)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

Kumadori (隈取)

Print Date: 1992
Artist: Lynn Matsuoka (リ ン 松岡)
Medium: Lithograph (ed. 50)
 
 
 
 

                   
[Back Stage]

Print Date: ?
Artist: Ogata Gekkô ((尾形月耕)
Series: [One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji]
Fuji Hyakkei (富士百景)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note:  This print was made on or before 1904.  One dealer said
it represents children's kabuki (performing Soga no Goro).