UTAGAWA KOKUNIMASA (歌 川小国政)
aka RYÛA (柳蛙) 

 1891

 
 
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.

 
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