TSUBAKI-HIME
(椿姫)
aka LA TRAVIATA
aka THE CAMELLIA PRINCESS
aka THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS
APRIL 1911
Kawai Takeo (河合武雄) as Haruko (春子)
Ii Yôhô (伊井蓉峰) as Tsuyuhara Arimaro (露原有麿)
Plays: Tsubaki-hime (椿姫); Saiai no Tsuma (最愛の妻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 04/14/11
Print Date: 04/17/11
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
SEPTEMBER 1919
Plays: Aîda (アイーダ); Tsubaki Hime [La Traviata] (椿姫); Fuausuto
[Faust] (フアウスト);
Karumen [Carmen] (カルメン); Borisu Godonofu [Boris Gudunov]
(ボリス・ゴドノフ)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/19
Print Date: 09/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithgraph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 1923
Operas: Aida; Rigoletto; La Tosca; Lucia Di Lammermoor;
Cavelleria Rusticana; La Traviata; Faust;
Il Trovatore; Barbiere Di Siviglia; Madama Butterfly; La Boheme;
Norma
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/26/23 - 02/04/23
Print Date: 01/1923?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
MARCH 1925
Operas: Il Trovatore; Faust; La Traviata; Aida; Cavalleria
Rusticana; I Pagliacci; Rigoletto;
Madame Butterfly; The Barber of Seville; Carmen; La Boheme;
Ernani; Tosca; La Gioconda; Otello
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10-19/25
Print Date: 03/1925?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
MARCH 1926
Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula;
Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of
Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madame
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in
Maschera; La Gioconda; Faust
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/10-29/26
Print Date: 02/1926?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
MARCH 1927
Operas: La Traviata; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; La Sonnambula;
Manon Lescaut; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Tosca; Thaïs; The Barber of
Seville; Aida; Carmen; Madam
Butterfly; La Boheme; The Tales of Hoffman; Un Ballo in
Maschera; La Gioconda
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/10-29/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
UNKNOWN MONTH 1927
Opera: [Camellia Princess (La Traviata)]
Tsubakihime (椿姫)
Print Date: 1927
Artist: Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二)
Medium: Lithographic sheet music cover
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
Note: Senô Gakufu (セノオ楽譜) No. 53.
MARCH 1929
Operas: Il Trovatore; Tosca; Rigoletto; Aida; La Traviata;
Carmen; La Boheme; Cavalleria Rusticana;
I Pagliacci; The Barber of Seville; Lucia di Lammermoor;
The Tales Of Hoffman; La Gioconda;
Manon Lescaut; Ballo in Maschera; La Sonnambula
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16-30/29
Print Date: 03/1929?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? flyer art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
DECEMBER 1930
Mizutani Yaeko I (水谷八重子) as
Tsubaki-hime (椿姫)
Play: Tsubaki-hime [La Traviata] (椿姫)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/30
Print Date: [1931-1932]
Artist: Natori Shunsen (名取春仙)
Series: Supplement to Sôsaku Hanga: Shunsen Nigao-e Shû
(創作版画 春仙似顔集)
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Yaeko previously played this role at the Hongô-za
in September 1927 and at the Asakusa Shochiku-za in
March 1928. It is possible that Shunsen based this print
one of those prior performances.
MARCH 1934
Program: [La Traviata] Tsubaki-hime (椿姫)
Performance Place: Tsukiji Shogekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/02-11/34
Print Date: 03/1934?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Note: Performed by the Bijutsu-za.
2008
La Traviata
Opera: La Traviata
Date: 2008 (ed. 200)
Artist: Itô Ryusakû (伊藤龍作)
Medium: Handcolored woodblock print
Series: Opera
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
Note: The uncolored version was originally produced in 2002.