UNKNOWN ARTIST

1908

               

Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan. 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of Columbia University
 
Note: Although only the January 1908 issue is show here,
essentially the same design was used for all 1908 issues of
Engei Gahô (演藝畫報),
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Haru no Uta (春の歌)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/08/08
Print Date: 02/1908
Medium: Machine lithograph? printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

 
[Theater Dressing Room]
 
Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/1908
Personal Collection
 
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.   The date
of this print has not been independently verified.   Similar prints
were issued in 1903.  A similar design from 1902 was attributed
by Kunitachi College of Music Library to Tsukioka Kogyo (月岡耕漁).
 
 
 
 

               

Play: Tsukishiro (月魄)
Performance Place: Tokyo-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/03/08
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Cover to Kabuki (歌舞伎),
No. 95 (June 1, 1908)
Image courtesy of the University of California
 
Note: Although unidentified, the artist is likely Kubota Beisai
(久保田米斎; 久保田米齋), who designed virtually all of the
covers for Kabuki magazine during this period. 
 
 

                 
? as ?
 
Nakamura Shikan V (中村芝翫) as Kitsune Kuzu no Ha (狐葛の葉)
 
Plays: Kagekiyo (景清); Sangokubusô Hisago no Gunbai (三国無双瓢軍扇); Modoribashi (戻橋);
Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami (芦屋道満大内鑑); Shinoda-zuma (信田妻)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/12/08
Print Date: 11/13/08
Medium: Woodblock printed sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum