KABUKI
(歌舞伎)
1909

               
Torii Ryû (鳥居流)

Play: ?
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. 102 (Jan 1, 1909)
Personal Collection

               
[Pine Trees in the Snow] Yuki no Naka no Matsu (雪中の松) 

Play: ?
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. 102 (Jan. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
 

               

Play: Hatsuyume (初夢) [presumably Takarabune Haru
Hatsuyume (宝船春初夢)]
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1909
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. 103 (Feb. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The title for the covers also indicates that plays at the
Kabuki-za, Ichimura-za, and Hongô-za are also depicted.
 
 

               

Play: ?
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. 103 (Feb. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The title for the covers also indicates that plays at the
Kabuki-za, Ichimura-za, and Hongô-za are depicted.
 
 

               
[[Kataoka] Nizaemon [XI] at the Meijiz-a]
Meijiza no Nizaemon (明治座の仁左衛門)

Plays: Ôishi Kuranosuke (大石内蔵助); Sokokura no Yu (底倉湯);
Imayô Mochizuki (今様望月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/21/09
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. 104 (Mar. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 

               
[Memorial Performances at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Tsuizen Engeki (歌舞伎座の追善演劇)

Plays: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/27/09
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. 104 (Mar. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: While it is unclear in whose memory the performances were
for, the plays at the Kabuki-za in February were Go Taiheiki Shiraishi
Banashi (碁太平記白石 噺); Kagamiyama Gonichi no Iwafuji
(加賀見山再岩藤); Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi (神霊矢口渡); and
Jûni Hitoe Komachi Zakura (重重人重小町桜).
 
 
 
 

               
[The Writers' Theater Cooperative]
Bunshi Geki Kyôdôkumiai (文士劇協同組合)

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. 105 (Apr. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
 
Play: Kagero (陽炎) 
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/01/09
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. 105 (Apr. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: It is possible that other plays were on the March bill at the
Hongô-za.
 
 

               
Kabukiza (歌舞伎)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
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. 106 (May 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the April bill at the Kabuki-za were Kyôkaku
Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘); Seishôkô (清正公); Hana no Ueno
Homare no Ishibumi (花上野誉碑); and Nyôbô no Kokoroe
(女房の心得).
 
 

               
Meijiza (明治座)

Play: ?; Gion Sairei Shinkôki (祇園祭礼信仰記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/01/09
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. 106 (May 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The other plays on the April bill at the Meiji-za were Yûshoku
Kamakurayama (有職鎌倉山); Sakura Shigure (桜時雨); and
Saruwaka (猿若).
 
 

               
Meijiza (明治座)

Plays: Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃); Horikawa (堀川);
Hanashôbu Keian Jikki (花菖蒲慶安実記)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/08/09
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. 107 (June 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 

               
Ichimuraza (市村座)

Play: ?; Keisei Hangonkô (傾城反魂香); ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/13/09
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. 107 (June 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the May bill at the Ichimura-za were Kinpira
Hōmon  Arasoi (金平法問争); Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbê
(極付幡随長兵衛); Touzumou Hana no Edogata (唐相撲花江戸方);
and Uraomote Date Tezome Kosode (裏表伊達染小袖).
 
 

               
Kabukiza (歌舞伎座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/03/09
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. 108 (July 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The plays on the June bill at the Kabuki-za were Ehon
Taikôki  (絵本太功記); On'na Kusunoki (女楠); Yowa Nasake
Ukina no Yokogushi (与話情浮名横櫛); and Setsugekka
(雪月花).
 
 

               
Yûrakuza (有樂座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/1909
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. 108 (July 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: Although the plays performed this month at the Yûraku-za
are not currently known, one would appear to be a Sambasô-mono.
 
 

               
Tokyoza (東京座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/04/09
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. 109 (Aug. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the July bill were  Ômori Hikoshichi (大森彦七);
Neko (猫); Renjishi (連獅子); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
(菅原伝授手習 鑑); and Yari no Gonza Kasane Katabira
(鑓の権三重帷子).
 
 

               
Yûrakuza (有楽座)

Plays: [Two Geniuses] Futari Tensai (二人天才); Shin
Katsuragawa (新桂川) 
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/14/09
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. 109 (Aug. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: There may have been other plays on the bill.
 
 

               
Shintomiza (新富座)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵);
Yûdachigumo Barafu no Yokogushi (夕立雲斑甲横櫛)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/09
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. 110 (Sept. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Yûrakuza (有樂座)

Plays: Manji (卍); Ocha Ippai (お茶一杯) 
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/16/09
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. 110 (Sept. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
Ichikawa Sadanji II (市川左團次; 市川左団次) as
Kumedera Danjô (粂寺弾正)

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/11/09
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. 111 (Oct. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               

Play: Kenuki (毛抜)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/11/09
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. 111 (Oct. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Kabukiza (歌舞伎座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/03/09
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. 112 (Nov. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: The plays on the October bill were Kyôgashima Musume
no Ikenie (経島娘生贄); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館);
Sanzen Ryô Omoni no Shûku Tsugi (三千兩重荷宿継); Koi
Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来); and Shinobi Yoru Koi no
Kusemono (忍夜恋曲者).
 
 

               
Tokyoza (東京座)

Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵); Katamigusa
Yotsuya Kaidan (形見草四谷怪談); Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba
(伊勢音頭恋寝刃)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/09/09
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. 112 (Nov. 1, 1909)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
Meijiza (明治座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
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. 113 (Dec. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The plays on the November bill were Meiboku Sendai Hagi 
(伽羅先代萩); Gozonji Banzui Chôbei (御存幡随長兵衛); Daikyôji
Mukashi Goyomi (大経師昔暦); Waka Sanjin (和歌三神); and
Otsu-e (大津絵).

               
Ichimuraza (市村座)

Play: ?
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/09
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. 113 (Dec. 1, 1909)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The plays on the November bill were Kaze ni Kurô
Kawabe no Yanagi (風狂川辺柳);  Honchô Nijûshikô  (本朝廿四孝);
Jûni-gatsu Jûyokka (十二月十四日); Kioi Jishi Kabuki no Hana Kago
(勢獅子劇場花籠); and Suitengû Megumi no Fukagawa
(水天宮利生深川),