KABUKI
(歌舞伎)
1908

               
Asahina no Kakuchô (朝比奈の拡張)

Play: Shatô Matsu (社頭松)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 93 (Jan 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
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Play: Shatô Matsu (社頭松)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 93 (Jan. 1, 1908)
Personal Collection
 
Not: For some reason, my copy of this back cover is attached in
place of the original back cover to issue No. 89.
 
 

               

Play: Meiboku Sendai Hagi (伽羅先代萩)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/24/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 94 (May 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Daigo no Hanami (醍醐の花見)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/24/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 94 (May 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               

Play: Tsukishiro (月魄)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 95 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although unidentified, the artist is likely Kubota Beisai
(久保田米斎; 久保田米齋), who designed virtually all of the
covers for Kabuki magazine during this period. 
 
 

               

Play: On'na no Nozomi (女の望)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/15/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 95 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although unidentified, the artist is likely Kubota Beisai
(久保田米斎; 久保田米齋), who designed virtually all of the
covers for Kabuki magazine during this period. 

               

Play: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 96 (July 1, 1908)
Personal Collection

               

Play: Yuki no Akebono Homare Akagaki (雪曙誉赤垣)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/21/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 96 (July 1, 1908)
Personal Collection
 
 

               

Play: Taiko no Oto Chiyû Sanryaku (太鼓音智勇三略)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/13/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 97 (Aug. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Shin Sarayashiki Tsuki no Amagasa (新皿屋舗月雨暈)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/13/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 97 (Aug. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
 
Play: Kaichô-on (海潮音) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/03/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 98 (Sept. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Kimura Nagato-no-Kami (木村長門守) 
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/03/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 98 (Sept. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as
[Goddess of Peace] Heiwa Megami (平和女神)

Play: [Dumb Journey] Oshi Ryokô (唖旅行)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/13/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 99 (Oct. 1, 1908)
Personal Collection

               

Play: [Before and After the Restoration] Ishin Zengo (維新前後)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/13/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 99 (Oct. 1, 1908)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
[Black Geese with White Moon] 
Shiro Tsuki ni Kuro Gan (白月に黒雁)

Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 100 (Nov. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: On'na Kabuki (女歌舞伎)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/26/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 100 (Nov. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[November Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabuki-za no Jûichi-tsuki Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の十一月狂言)

Play: Kagekiyo (景清)     
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/12/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 101 (Dec. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Ichikawa Komazô VIII(市川高麗蔵) played Kagekiyo in this
production.

               
[November Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabuki-za no Jûichi-tsuki Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の十一月狂言)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/12/08
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 101 (Dec. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Besides Kagekiyo, the November 1908 bill at the Kabuki-za
included Sangokubusô Hisago no Gunbai (三国無双瓢軍扇);
Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑; 蘆屋道満大内鑑),
Modoribashi (戻橋), and Shinoda-zuma (信田妻).