JÔRURI (浄瑠璃) RECITERS/SINGERS/MUSICIANS
 

                
[Female Jôruri Player] Onna Jôruri  (女じょうるり)

Play: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝), Act IV
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: c. 1900-1901
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library

Ningyo Joruri

Performance Place: Bunraku Theatre
Performance Date: 1922?
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Nakazawa Hiromtisu (中澤弘光)
Series: Nihon Taikan #8       
Personal Collection
 
 

Tayû (大夫)

Publication: 版画 [Hanga], 第 1 号
Date: February 1, 1929
Artist: Miyao Shigeo (宮尾しげを)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

[Jôruri Puppets] Jôruri Ningyô (浄瑠璃人形)

Publication:  Han Geijutsu (版芸術), 第 43 [44] 号
Date: 11/01/35 
Artist: Fujimoto Tôichiryô (藤本東一良)
 
 
 

                   
Jorûri Singer

Print Date: 01/20/36
Artist: Paul Jacoulet
Image courtesy of the USC Pacific Asia Museum

 
 
 

                   
[Female Jôruri Player] Onna Jôruri  (女じょうるり)

Print Date: 1973
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

                   
]Female Jôruri Player] Kakumaru no Naka no Onna Jôruri
(角丸の中の女じょうるり)

Print Date: 1973
Artist: Mori Yoshitoshi (森義利)
Medium: Stencil print (ed. 70)

Note: Only a black and white image is currently available. 
It is
not known at this time if a color version exists.
 
 

Shin'nai Okamoto Bun'ya-shi (新内 岡本文弥師)

Date: 1979
Artist: Tokuriki Tomikichirô (徳力富吉郎)
 
 
 

Kabuki Narrators, Japan

Print Date: ?
Artist: Suzanne McCollough Plowden
Medium: colored etching
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

Kabuki Narrators, Japan

Print Date: ?
Artist: Suzanne McCollough Plowden
Medium: colored etching
Personal Collection
 
Note: Variant state.