UTAGAWA KUNITOSHI (歌川国利)
aka BAIÔ DÔJIN (梅翁道人)

1891

[New Edition Oppekepê Sugoroku]
Shinpan Oppekepē Sugoroku (新版オツペケペー双六)
 
Song: Oppekepê (オツペケペー)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date:
Print Date: 1891
Medium: Woodblock printed sugoroku
Personal Collection
 
Note: Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎), the figure in the center panel,
frequently performed this number between plays circa 1888-1894.  The
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum's copy has a December 14, 1888 date
stamped in the margin.  Is this a reissue of a 1888 published version?
 
 
 

Close-up of the center panel
  
Note: Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎), the figure in the center panel,
frequently performed this number between plays circa 1888-1894.  The
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum's copy has a December 14,
1888 date stamped in the margin.  Is this a reissue of a 1888
published version?

               
                  Original envelope for the sugoroku.

               
                 Reverse of the original envelope for the
                sugoroku..