UNKNOWN ARTISTS
1916
JANUARY
Plays: Ninin Dôjôji (二人道成寺); Nawa Nagatoshi (名和長年); Momijigari
(紅葉狩);
Kiyari Ondo Mutsuki no Nigiwai (木遣音頭睦月賑)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/20/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Ichikawa Ennosuke II (市川猿之助) as
Adachi Motoemon (安達元右衛門)
Play: Katakiuchi Tengajaya-mura
(敵討天下茶屋聚)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 01/01/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
FEBRUARY
Plays: Masukotto [La Mascotte] (マスコット)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/26/16
Print Date: 012/1916?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
APRIL
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Yaegiri (八重桐)
Play: Komochi Yamanba
(嫗山姥)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/31/16
Print Date: 01/1916?
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed postcard
Personal Collection
Note: During the relevant time period
when the print could have been made,
Tokizô III also performed this role at
the Aomori Kabukiza in August 1921
and at the Shôchiku Gekijô in May
1926. It is possible that this print
reflects one of those performances.
Play: Kanadehon Chûshingura
(仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 05/06/16
Image courtesy of Hara Shobo
Plays: Hototogisu Asama no Nishikie (早苗鳥浅間錦繪); Noboru Asahi (昇る旭);
Ishi no Haha (醫師の母); Hôkaibô (法界坊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/16
Print Date: 05/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
JUNE
Plays: Asakusa Kannondô (浅草觀音堂); Nikki no Ichi Pe-ji
(日記の一頁); Monogatari (ものがたり);
Inazuma (稲妻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/02/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Dance: Roshia Buyô [Russian Dance] (露國舞踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/16/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Shuku Nihon Kimigayo (祝日本君が代); Ôkesutora (オーケストラ); Opera (オペラ);
Operêto (オペレート); Koi no Noroi (戀の呪); Kamêriya (カメーリヤ); Fukkatsu:
Kachûsha
[Katyusha] (復活: カチューシャ); Yûmeinaru Butô (有名なる舞踏)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/15/16
Print Date: 06/1916?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
SEPTEMBER
Plays: Nachi no Taki Chikai no Mongaku (那智瀧祈誓文覚); Ejima
Ikushima (江島生島);
Funa Benkei (船辨慶); Satsuma Odori (薩摩踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 09/01/16
Print Date: 09/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
OCTOBER
Plays: Hidakagawa Iriai Zakura (日高川入相櫻)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/25/16
Print Date: 10/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed? program art
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
DECEMBER
Plays: Goban Tadanobu (碁盤忠信); Shôutsushi Asagao Banashi (生寫朝顔日記);
Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語); Mitsu no Tomoe Yukino Yobanashi
(三巴雪夜話)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/16
Print Date: 12/1916?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum