TEIKOKU GEKIJÔ,
TOKYO
(帝国劇場)
JULY 1920
[In The Imperial Theater] Teigeki nite (帝劇にて)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 1920?
Print Date: 07/1920
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Series: Sekiban yoru saku hana to hanga no kai-ten
(Shiseidô) ( 夜咲く花と版画の会展(資生堂))
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of the University of Michigan
Museum of Art
Note: While the plays performed at the Teikoku
Gekijô in 1920 are known, without knowing the
month of the performance, it is difficult to
identify the play being depicted in the print.
1922
[Imperial Theatre] Teikoku Gekijô (帝国劇場)
Print Date: 1922
Artist: Negoro Raizan (根来莱山)
*Courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art
SEPTEMBER 1926
Operas: Aida; Faust; Carmen; Boris Gudonov; Eugene Onegin; The
Tales of Hoffman; Rigoletto;
The Demon; The Queen of Spades
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/21-30/26
Print Date: 09/1926?
Medium: Machine lithographic printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera. Although it is
not entirely clear, I believe the cover
depicts the interior of the Teikoku Gekijô.
UNKNOWN DATE
[Imperial Theatre] Teikoku Gekijô (帝国劇場)
Print Date: ?
Artist: Tanaka Ryô (田中良)
Medium: Lithograph
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: This was a frontispiece illustration for a novel by Tanizaki
Junichirô and Kikuchi Kan.