UNKNOWN ARTIST

1903

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Benten Kozô Kikunosuke
 
Play: Enoshiima Sodachi Neoi no
Chigogiku (江島育根生児菊)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/13/1902
Print Date: 02/1903?  
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 
  

 
Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 02/1903?  
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
Note: This print possibly depicts Kikugorô V as Tsubone no Iwafuji
(局岩藤) in Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (鏡山故郷錦).
 
 
 
  

 
? as  Ôboshi Yuranosuke (大星由良之助)
 
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura (假名手本忠臣蔵; 仮名手本忠臣蔵) 
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1903  
Image courtesy of FujiArts.com
 
Note: This shinei possibly depicts Ichikawa Danjûrô IX
(市川団十郎; 市川團十郎), who died in 1903.
 
 
 
  

                
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川團十郎; 市川團十郎) as
Katô Kiyomasa (加藤清正)
 
Plays:  Kiyomasa Seichûroku (清正誠忠録); Kichirei Soga no Ishizue (吉例曽我礎);
Hanazakari Kabuki no Momijiba (花盛劇楓葉); Toriawase Otoko Mai (鶏合男子舞)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/16/03
Print Date: 03/16/03
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

 
[Theater Dressing Room] Gekijô Gakuya (劇場楽屋)
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 03/1903
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asia Art
 
Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
 
 
 

                
               
 
                Play: ?
                Performance Place: ?
                Performance Date: ?
                Print Date: 03/26/03
 
                Note: This print does not appear to be numbered.  It is unclear if
                it is a stand-alone print or part of a multi-sheet kumiage.  A similar
                design from 1902 was attributed by Kunitachi College of Music
                Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
               
 
            

                
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎 市川團十郎) as
Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局) and Ôgosho Ieyasu-kô (大御所家康公)
 
Plays:  Kasuga no Tsubone (春日局); Suô Otoshi (素襖落); On'na Date Komagata Osen
(女侠駒形おせん)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/09/03
Print Date: 05/09/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

? as Heike Kiyomori (平家清盛)

? as ?
  
? as Aoi Gozen (葵御前)

? as ?
 
Play:?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 06/04/03
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: This print depicts a Genpei
Seisuiki play such as Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引瀧).
 
 
 

? as ?
 
? as ?
 
Play: Edojô Akewatashi (江戸城明渡)
Performance Place: Meiji-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/04/03
Print Date: 05/28/03
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed kuchi-e, published in the script of Edojô Akewatashi (江戸城明渡)
Personal Collection
 
Note: The inaugural production of this play was performed by Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎)
and his troupe.  Since Kawakami would have played a leading role, his character is likely
one of the two depcited in this print.
 
 
 
 

Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as ?

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 09/1903
Artist: ?
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                
Plays:  Matsu no Sakae Chiyoda no Shintoku (松栄千代田神徳); Funa Benkei (船弁慶);
Kamiko Jitate Ryômen Kagami (紙子仕立両面鑑); Koharu-ji Kabuki Nigiwai (小春時歌舞伎賑)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/17/03
Print Date: 10/29/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

                
Plays:  Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Tsubosaka Reigenki (壷坂霊験記);
Mikazuki (三日月); Kuruwa Bunshô (廓文章)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/21/03
Print Date: 11/23/03
Medium: Woodblock printed  sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 

Plays: [Hamlet] Hamuretto (ハムレット); Ukare Kokyû (うかれ胡弓)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:   11/02/03
Print Date: 11/1903?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki front page
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

 
Ichikawa Danjûrô IX (市川団十郎; 市川團次郎) as ?
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1903
Image courtesy of the Honolulu
Museum of Art