THE MERCHANT OF
VENICE
BENISU NO SHÔNIN
(ヴェニスの商人)
JUNE 1903
[City of Venice] Enisu Shigai (エニス市街)
Play: [The Merchant of Venice] Machanto ofu Venisu
(マーチャント、オフ、ヴェニス)
Performance Place: Meiii-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/04/03
Artist: Kubota Beisai (久保田米斎; 久保田米齋)
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Back cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 38 (July 1, 1903)
Personal Collection
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1911
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