Operas: Aida; Rigoletto; La Tosca; Lucia Di Lammermoor; Cavelleria Rusticana; La Traviata; Faust;
Il Trovatore; Barbiere Di Siviglia; Madama Butterfly; La Boheme; Norma
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  01/26/23 - 02/04/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Operas: Il Trovatore; Faust; La Traviata; Aida; Cavalleria Rusticana; I Pagliacci; Rigoletto;
Madame Butterfly; The Barber of Seville; Carmen; La Boheme; Ernani; Tosca; La Gioconda; Otello
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10-19/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madame
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda; Faust
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/10-29/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula; Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madam
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in Maschera; La Gioconda
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/10-29/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 

                 
Chôchô-san (蝶々さん) and Pinkerton
 
Opera: [Madama Butterfly] O-chô Fujin (お蝶婦人)
Print Date: 04/01/33
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Published in Han Geijutsu (版芸術), Vol. 13 (April 1, 1933)
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery
 

                 
Act I (第一幕）
 
Opera: [Madama Butterfly] O-chô Fujin (お蝶婦人)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther
 

                 
Act II (第二幕）
 
Opera: [Madama Butterfly] O-chô Fujin (お蝶婦人)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther
 
 

                 
[Madama Butterfly Toy Print]
O-chô Fujin Omocha-e (お蝶婦人玩具絵)
 
Opera: [Madama Butterfly]
O-chô Fujin (お蝶婦人)
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
 
Note: It is unclear if this print
was issued in color or not.

Cho-Cho-San

Opera: Madama Butterfly
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1933
Artist: Tachibana Sayume (橘小夢)
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                   
Mizutani Yaeko I (水谷八重子丈) as
Ochô (お蝶)

Play: Ochô Fujin (お蝶夫人)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/06/53
Print Date: 07/1954
Artist: Ota Gatô (太田雅光)
Series: Gendai Butai Geika (現代舞台芸花) (#4)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

Note: Yaeko first played the role of Ochô in this play in
Tokyo at the Kabuki-za in August 1952.  Although
Yaeko's final Tokyo appearance in this role before the the
publication of this print was in September 1953, it is 
possible that Gakô based this print on Yaeko's
performance at the Kabuki-za.
 
 
 
 

Garden of Madame Butterfly

Print Date: 1955
Artist: Tagawa Ken (田川憲)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This garden commemorates Puccini's opera of the same name
 
 
 
 

                   
[Madame Butterfly's Fence]  Chōchōfujin no Saku (蝶々夫人の柵)

Play: Ochōfujin (お蝶夫人)
Performance Place:  ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1958
Artist: Munakata Shikô (棟方志功)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 
 

                   
Ochôfujin (お蝶夫人)

Play: Ochōfujin (お蝶夫人)
Performance Place:  [Bunraku-za, Osaka?]
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1963
Artist: Hasegawa Sadanobu IV (長谷川貞信)
Series: Bunraku-za Ningyô Hanga-shû
(文楽座人形版画集), #?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
 

                 
[Madama Butterfly] Chôchô Fujin (蝶々夫人)

Opera: Madama Butterfly
Date:  2008 (ed. 200)
Artist: Itô Ryûsaku (伊藤龍作)
Medium: Handcolored woodblock print
Series: Opera
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: The uncolored version was originally produced in 2002.
 
 

                   
Cho-Cho-San

Opera: Madama Butterfly
Print Date: ? (pre-July 1952)
Artist: Vincent Hack
Personal Collection

                   
Cho-Cho-San

Opera: Madama Butterfly
Print Date: ? (pre-July 1952)
Artist: Vincent Hack