TAKARAZUKA
(宝塚)

               
[Takarazuka Greenhouse] Takarazuka Onshitsu (宝塚温室)

Print Date: 1934
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Image courtesy of Chris Walther
 

                   
 
Title:  Kigen Nisen Roppyaku Nen Omoide no Tôhô : Katei Kyôraku Sugoroku
(紀元二千六百年思い出の東宝 : 家庭共楽双六)
Print Date: 1940
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Medium: Sugoroku Lithograph
Personal Collection
 
Note:  This print depicts the popular movies and theater plays of that period in twelve segments for twelve months of and also contains
some textual information on the performances. "Kigen Nisen Roppyaku Nen" (紀元二千六百年, 2600 Years Since the Founding) is a
Japanese song commemorating 1940. It was written in 1939 by Yoshio Masuda and composed by Gihachirō Mori.
 
 
 

                   
The back of the sugoroku has the map of theaters and movie theaters in Tokyo, run by Tôkyô Takarazuka Gekijô and is titled
"Kabushiki Gaisha Tôkyo Takarazuka Gekijô chokuei gekijô (株式会社東京宝塚劇場直営劇場)."  The map contains the photographs of
those theaters and a list of related theaters in other regions
.

[Takarazuka Theater] Takarazuka no Gekijô (宝塚の劇場)

Performance Place: Takarazuka Theater (宝塚の劇場)
Print Date: 1941
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Series: [City Life] Tokai Seikatsu (都会生活)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Personal Collection (#203/100)
 

L.: [Takarazuka Orchestra] Takaradzuka no Ôkesutora (宝塚のオーケストラ)
R: [ [A scene from Takarazuka Revue] 
Takaradzuka Kageki no Ichi Bamen  (宝塚歌劇の一場面)

Place: Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Series: Scenic Takarazuka
Medium: Woodblock printed envelope
 
Note: One seller dated this to set to around 1955.
 
 
 
 

               
                 [Botanical Garden] Shokubutsu-en (植物園)
 
                Place: Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
                Series: Scenic Takarazuka
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
 
 
 
 

Amusement Park Main Gate] Yuenchi Seimon  (遊園地正門)
。
 Place: Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo
Print Date: ?
Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
Series: Scenic Takarazuka
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
 
 
 
 

               
                 [Takarazuka Zoo]  Takaradzuka Dôbutsu-en  (宝塚動物園)
 
                 Place: Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
                Series: Scenic Takarazuka
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
 
 
 
 

               
                 [A panoramic view of Takarazuka Shin Onsen from the right
                bank of the Mukogawa River]
                Mukogawa Ugan Kara Mita Takaradzuka Shin Onsen Zenkei
                (武庫川右岸から見た宝塚新温泉全景.
 
                Place: Takarazuka Theater, Tokyo
                Print Date: ?
                Artist: Kawanishi Hide (川西英)
                Series: Scenic Takarazuka
                Medium: Woodblock printed postcard