KABUKI
(歌舞伎)
1913

               
Sugawara's Ox-Cart] Ushiguroma (菅原の牛車)

Play: Kurumabiki (車引), Act 3, Scene 1 of Sugawara Denju Tenarai
Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑)
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. 151 (Jan 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: It is possible that the cover illustration relates to a production
at the Miyato-za in Tokyo in November 1912.
 
 

               
[Butterfly Plover] Chô Chidori (蝶千鳥) 

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. 151 (Jan. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               

Play: Takeda Shingen (武田信玄) 
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1913
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. 152 (Feb. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Play: Yakko Dako Sato no Harukaze (奴凧廓春風); 
Ume no Naniwa Ikutamasu Shinjû (梅浪花生玉心中) 
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo; Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/1913; 01/1913
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. 152 (Feb. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               

Play: [Memories] Omohide (思ひ出)
aka Alt Heidelburg (アルトハイデルベルク)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/1913
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. 153 (Mar. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               

Plays: Terakoya (寺子屋), Act IV, Scene 3 of Sugawara Denju
Tenarai Kagami (菅原傳授手習鑑); Wankyu Sue no Matsuyama
(椀久末松山); Date Musume Koi no Higanoko (伊達娘戀緋鹿子)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/03/13
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. 153 (Mar. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[Theaters in March] Sangatsu no Kaku Gekijô (三月の各劇場)

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. 154 (Apr. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[Theaters in March] Sangatsu no Kaku Gekijô (三月の各劇場)

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. 154 (Apr. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[April Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Shigatsu Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の四月狂言)

Play: Shôdoshima (小豆島); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六); Yoshiya Otoko Tanzen Sugata (よしや男丹前姿) 
Performance Place: Kabkuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/05/13
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. 155 (May 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[April Kyôgen at the Kabuki-za]
Kabukiza no Shigatsu Kyôgen (歌舞伎座の四月狂言)

Play: Shôdoshima (小豆島); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku
(伊賀越道中双六); Yoshiya Otoko Tanzen Sugata (よしや男丹前姿)
Performance Place: Kabkuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/05/13
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. 155 (May 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[New Kyôgen by Each Theater in May]
Gogatsu Kakuza no Shin Kyôgen (五月各座の新狂言)

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. 156 (June 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[New Kyôgen by Each Theater in May]
Gogatsu Kakuza no Shin Kyôgen (五月各座の新狂言)

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. 156 (June 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[June Plays] Roku no Shibai (六月の芝居)

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. 157 (July 1, 1913)
Personal Collection

               
[June Plays] Roku no Shibai (六月の芝居)

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. 157 (July 1, 1913)
Personal Collection
 
 

               
[July Plays] Nanagatsu no Shibai (七月の芝居)

Play: [Julius Caesar] Juriyasu, Shîzâ (ジュリヤス、シーザー)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/26/13
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. 158 (Aug. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[July Plays] Nanagatsu no Shibai (七月の芝居)

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. 158 (Aug. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[August Plays] Hachigatsu no Shibai (八月の芝居)

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. 159 (Sept. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[August Plays] Hachigatsu no Shibai (八月の芝居)

Play: Oshun Denbê Sarumawashi Kadode no Hitofushi
(お俊傳兵衛猿廻門途の一諷);
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/13
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. 159 (Sept. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[September Plays] Kugatsu no Shibai (九月の芝居)

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. 160 (Oct. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[September Plays] Kugatsu no Shibai (九月の芝居)

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. 160 (Oct. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[October Plays] Jûgatsu no Shibai (十月の芝居)

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. 161 (Nov. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: It is possible that the figure on the right is intended to be
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄; 河合武夫) as Erekutora [Electra]
(エレクトラ), which opened at the Teikoku Gekijô in Tokyo on
October 1, 1913.
 
 

               
[October Plays] Jûgatsu no Shibai (十月の芝居)

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. 161 (Nov. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
 

               
[November Plays] Jûichigatsu no Shibai (十一月の芝居)

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. 162 (Dec. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California

               
[November Plays] Jûichigatsu no Shibai (十一月の芝居)

Play: ?; ?; Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章); ?
Performance Place: ?; ?; Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: ?; ?: 11/03/13
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. 162 (Dec. 1, 1913)
Image courtesy of the University of California