JÔRURI (浄瑠璃) RECITERS/SINGERS/MUSICIANS
 

SEPTEMBER 1900

                
[Performance without Costume, Music, or Dance]

Play:  [Singing] Su-utai (素謡)
Print Date: 09/25/1900
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue
(能楽図絵) [#203]
*Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University
 


 

                
[Out-of-Costume Actor Dances and Sings in
front of a Chorus, three Drummers, and a
Flutist]

Play:  Hayashi (囃子)
Print Date: 09/25/1900
 Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue
(能楽図絵) [#204]
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University


 

                
[Out-of-Costume Actor Dances with a Child Actor,
another Actor, Musicians, and part of a Chorus]

Play:  Hakamanô (袴能)
Print Date: 09/25/1900
Artist: Tsukioka Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Picture of Noh Plays] Nôgaku Zue
(能楽図絵) [#205]
Image courtesy of the Art Research Center,
Ritsumeikan University


 

1900-1902

                
[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

 


MAY 1902

                
                
[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 Kôgyo (月岡耕漁)
Series: [Brocades of the Capital] Miyake no Nishiki (都の錦)
Image courtesy of Kunitachi College of Music Library


 




 

MARCH 1903

 
[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).
           
 
 
 
 

1908

 
[Theater Dressing Room]
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/1908
Personal Collection
 
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).
 
 
 
 

1922



Ningyo Joruri

Performance Place: Bunraku Theatre
Performance Date: 1922?
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Nakazawa Hiromtisu (中澤弘光)
Series: Nihon Taikan #8       
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

1929


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
 
 
 
 

JANUARY 1936

                   
Jorûri Singer

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

 
 
 

1973

                   
[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.
 
 


1979


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

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

UNKNOWN DATE



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.