HAMLET [HAMURETTO]
(ハムレット)


NOVEMBER 1903


[Ophelia] Orie (おりえ)

Play: Hamuretto [Hamlet] (ハムレット)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/02/03
Print Date:  10/05/03
Artist: Kaburagi Kiyokata (鏑木清方)
Medium: Lithographic kuchi-e in the Hamuretto script published in
October 1903
Personal Collection

Note: Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) played Orie in the 1903
Hongô-za priemiere production of Hamuretto.
 
 
 


    







                               
            Kawakami Sadayakko ((川上貞奴) as Oriyé [Ophelia]

            Play: [Hamlet] Hamuretto (ハムレット)
            Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
            Performance Date: 11/02/1903
            Print Date: 04/20/2020
            Artist: Jenna Manders-Wilde
            Medium: Linocut reduction print
            Personal Collection (#5/8)
 
            Note: Although Sadayakko is not specifically referenced,
            the artist has publicly stated that she based this print on a
            photograph of Sadayakko as Ophelia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




Plays: [Hamlet] Hamuretto (ハムレット); Ukare Kokyû (うかれ胡弓)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:   11/02/03
Print Date: 11/1903?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki front page
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

MAY 1911

                 
 
Play: [Hamlet] Hamuretto (ハムレット)

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/20/11
Print Date: 05/20/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




 
 
 

FEBRUARY 1918

                 
 
Plays: Hamuretto [Hamlet] (ハムレット); Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/18
Print Date: 02/1918?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 




1929

                 
 
Play: [Hamlet]  Hamuretto (ハムレット)
Print Date: 1929
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther