KABUKICHÔ
(歌舞伎座)

Kobikichō Kabuki-za Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
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Note: This was a collaboration with Torii Tadamasa, Tomita Chiaki, Kamoshita Chôko,
Takane Kôji, Natori Shunsen, Miyao Shigeo, Jinbo Tomoyo, Shimizu Miezô, and
Mori Shunchô.  One of the panels by Kubota follows.
 
 
 
 

                   
Starting Panel of Kobikichō Kabuki-za
Gekigain Gassaku (こびき町歌舞伎座 劇画院合作)
Print Date: 12/1950
Artist: Kubota Kinsen (久保田金僊)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection

                 
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai ((恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1794
Print Date: 05/2020
Artist: Paul Binnie
Print Title: Kabukichô (歌舞伎町)
Image courtesy of Binniecatalogue.com

Note: This print incorporates figures from recarved Tôshûsai Sharaku (東洲斎 写楽) blocks.

                 
Nakayama Tomisaburo I (中山富三郎) as Umegawa (梅川) and
Matsumoto Kôshirô IV (松本幸四郎) as Magoemon ( 孫右衛門)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai ((恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: ?, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1794
Print Date: 2020
Artist: Paul Binnie
Personal Collection

Note: This print was printed by Binnie from recarved Tôshûsai Sharaku
(東洲斎 写楽) blocks that the artist had acquired .  The design was
incorporated into the artist's print Kabukichô (歌舞伎町).  This print was
printed as close as possible in what is believed to have been the original
unfaded color scheme of the Sharaku print.  That color scheme was
intentionally altered for theKabukichô print to give the figures a more
ghostly pallor.