UTAGAWA KOKUNIMASA (歌
川小国政)
aka RYÛA (柳蛙)
1891
JUNE
Song: Oppekepe (おっぺけぺー)
Performance Place: Nakamura-za,
Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/20/91
Print Date: 06/20/1891
Personal Collection
Note: This copy is trimmed, lacking
the cartouche in the bottom right of
the right panel.
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎)
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎)
Song: Oppekepe (おっぺけぺー)
Performance Place:
Nakamura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/20/91
Print Date: 07/1891
Image courtesy of the
National Theater of Japan
Note: Untrimmed cop where
the red carpet has oxidized.
Kawakami
Otojirô (川上音二郎)
Song: Oppekepe (おっぺけぺー)
Performance Place: Nakamura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/20/91
Print Date: 08/01/26
Medium:
Woodblock printed magazine cover
Published
in Bangasa (番傘), Vol. 15, No. 8
Personal Collection
Note: Kokunimasa's design was reused in a reduced size as
the cover
for Bangasa magazine om 1926.
DECEMBER
Song: Oppekepe (おっぺけぺー)
Print Date: 12/1891
Medium Woodblock prints omacha-e
Personal Collection
Note: The top right panel is a parody of Kanjinchô (勧進帳) with
monkeys.
Close-up of the top left panel