UNKNOWN ARTISTS

1919

                 
[Matsui Sumako's Song] Matsui Sumako no Uta (松井須磨子の歌)
 
Print Date:  02/20/1919
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
 
Note:  It is unclear if this is a song about Matsui Sumako, or sheet music
for songs made famous by Matsui Sumako.  She committed suicide on
January 5, 1919.
 
 
 

 
Plays: Shotai Men (初對面); Suitchi (ス井ッチ); Gozen Zumô (御前角力); Onitsuta (鬼蔦);
Kichirei Kanadehon Chûshingura (吉例假名手本忠臣藏)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

                 
 
Plays: Shotai Men (初對面); Suitchi (ス井ッチ); Gozen Zumô (御前角力); Onitsuta (鬼蔦);
Kichirei Kanadehon Chûshingura (吉例假名手本忠臣藏)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/01/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.
 

                 
 
Plays: Sansuji no Iroito (三筋の色糸); Hisago no Sake (瓢の酒); Nichimutori (日無鳥);
Kokyō no Matsubara (古郷の松原); Shinmachibashi (新町橋)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 02/18/19
Print Date: 02/1919?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the  Soganoya Goro Ippa.

Plays: Hana Arasoi (花争); Kagura Kitsune (神楽狐); Momoiro Ômu (桃色鸚鵡); Kanae Hôshi (鼎法師);
Oshi Nyôbô (唖女房); Komachi Odori (小町踊)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:   05/15/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 
 

                 
 
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?
Medium: Machine lithgraph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Ms. Burskaya (ブルスカヤ), Ivanogus (イワノグ), and Rossieva (ロシエワ) rotated in the title
role of Carmen.
 

                 
 
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?
Medium: Machine lithgraph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                        
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Banzui Chôbêi (幡随長兵衛)

Play: Kiwametsuki Banzui Chôbêi
(極附幡随長兵衛; 極付幡随長兵衛)
Performance Place: Ichimura-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 10/1919
Print Date: 1919?
*Image courtesy of the Smithsonian's
American Museum of Asian Art

Note: The American Museum of Asian
Art attributes this print to Natori Shunsen,
but the signature on this print does not appear
to be that of Shunsen.  Kichiemon I also
performed this role in Tokyo at the Ichimura-
za in March 1909 and at the Meiji-za in June
1928, as well as at various venues thereafter, 
but in size and style it is more like the actor
prints being produced in the late 1910s.
Around this time Kichiemon also portrayed
Banzui Chôbêi in Hanakawado Uwasa no
Naita (花川戸噂の爼板), a version of
Suzu-ga-Mori (鈴ヶ森) at the Ichimura-za
in November 1916, but the costume is more
consistent with a production of Kiwametsuki
Banzui Chôbêi.
 
 
 
 

                 
 
Plays: Fausuto [Faust] (ファウスト); Suvengari/ [Svengali]  (スヴェンガリ);
Roshiyan Dansu (ロシヤンダンス); Shinkon Ryokô (新婚旅行)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/21/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 

                 
 
Plays: Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六); Tsuchigumo (土蜘); Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); 
Yuki no Yûbe Iriya no Azemichi (雪暮夜入谷畦道); Yoshiwara Suzume (教草吉原雀)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/01/19
Print Date: 12/1919?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum