Matsui Sumako (松井須磨子) as Nora (ノラ)
 
Plays: [A Doll's House] Ningyô no Ie (人形の家);  Kanzan Shatoku (寒山拾得); Oshichi Kichisa
(お七吉三); [The Merchant of Venice] Benisu no Shônin (ヴェニスの商人)

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/28/11
Print Date: 11/23/1911
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Matsui Sumako) (松井須磨子) as Magda (マグダ)

Play: [Hometown] Furusato (故郷)
Performance Place: Yûraku-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/1912
Print Date: 06/25/12
Artist: Nakazawa Hiromitsu (中澤弘光)
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e in the
published script for Furusato
Personal Collection
 
Note: Furusato was a Japanese version of the
play Heimat [Home] aka Magda  by Hermann
Sudermann (ズーダーマン).
 
 
 

                 
[Katyusha's Song] Kachûsha no Uta
(カチューシャの唄)

Play: [Resurrection] Fukkatsu (復活)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/26/1914
Print Date:  05/29/1914
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
Personal Collection (version printed 06/22/1914)

Note: Senô Shin Kouta (セノオ新小唄) No. 1.  
This song was first performed by Matsui Sumako
(松 須磨子) in a Japanese adaptation of Leo
Tolstoy's  novel Resurrection and subsequently
enjoyed great commercial success as stand-alone
song.  The print appears to be inspired by a
production photo showing Matsui Sumako in a
similar but not identical dress.
 

                 
[Gondola Song] Gondola no Uta (ゴンドラの唄)
 
Play::[The Night Before] Sono Zen'ya  (その前夜)
Perfomance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/26/15
Print Date:  06/29/16 (first printing, though the
image shown is from a later printing)
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
 
Note: This song was introduced by Matsui Sumako
(松井須磨子) in Sono Zen'ya, who later recorded it.
 
 
 

Matsui Sumako (松 須磨子) as [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
[Song of Carmen] Karumen no Uta (カルメンの唄)
 
Play: [Carmen] Karumen (カルメン)
Peformance Place: Yûraku-za (有楽座), Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/19
Print Date: 1919
Artist: Okamoto Kiichi (岡本歸一; 岡本帰一)
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

                 
[Matsui Sumako's Song] Matsui Sumako no Uta (松井須磨子の歌)
 
Print Date:  02/20/1919
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
 
Note:  It is unclear if this is a song about Matsui Sumako, or sheet music
for songs made famous by Matsui Sumako.  She committed suicide on
January 5, 1919.