MOULIN ROUGE
[MŪRANRŪJU]
(ムーラ・ンルージュ)
1950
[Shinjuku Night View]
Print Date: 1950
Artist: Kitaoka Fumio (北岡文雄)
Album: [The Face of Tokyo] Tokyo no Kao (東京の顔) No. 2
Image courtesy of the Saru Gallery
Note: The "Musa" is the Shinjuku Musashino-kan, Tokyo's premiere
movie house for foreign films. The red windmill denotes the
[Moulin
Rouge] Mūranrūju, a theatre for light plays.
1951
[Red Windmill [Moulin Rouge], Shinjuku] Mūranrūju, Shinjuku
(ムーラン・ルージュ 新宿)
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirō (関野準一郎)
Medium: Etching
Personal Collection (#3/10)
Note:The Mūranrūju was a theatre for light plays. An alternate
title for the theatre was the Akafūsa,
Shinjuku (赤い風車 新宿).
[Red Windmill [Moulin Rouge], Shinjuku] Mūranrūju, Shinjuku
(ムーラン・ルージュ 新宿)
Print Date: 1951
Artist: Sekino Jun'ichirō (関野準一郎)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten (ed. 50)
Note: This is a reduced size version of the Red Windmill etching
produced in a large edition.