UNKNOWN ARTIST

  1927

Plays: Taira no Masakado (平將門); Shinyû (親友); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/10/27
Print Date: 02/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Taira no Masakado (平將門); Shinyû (親友); Oshichi (お七)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  02/10/27
Print Date: 02/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 

               
[Great Nikkatsu Popular Actor Sugoroku]
Dai Nikkatsu Ninki Haiyû Sugoroku (大日活人気俳優双六)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Onoe Tamitarô (尾上多見太郎) 

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Takagi Eiji (高木永二)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Ichikawa Ichimaru (市川市丸)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Ikenaga Kôkyû  (池永浩久)
aka Sawada Ken (澤田 憲) aka Sawada Sanji (澤田三治)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection
 
Note: Ikenaga Kôkyû was the director of Nikkatsu.
 
 
 
 

               
Minami Mitsuaki (南光明)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Make-up]  Meiku Appu (メイクアップ)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Okada Yoshiko (岡田嘉子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Sakai Yoneko (酒井米子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Urabe Kumeko (浦辺粂子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Asaoka Nobuo (浅岡信夫)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Yumemura Yôko (梅むら蓉子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Yamamoto Kaichi (山本嘉一) 

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[High-Angle Photography] Fukan Satsuei (俯瞰撮影)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Kawabe Gorô (河部五郎)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Saijô Kayoko (西條香代子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Tanizaki Jurô (谷崎十郎)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Studio Set] Setto (セット)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Stunt Scene] Bôken (冒険)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu
(大日活)
magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic
sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Sunada Komako (砂田駒子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu
(大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Sawamura Haruko (沢村春子)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Okada Tokihiko (岡田時彦)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Official Day Off] Kôkyû-bi (公休日)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Koizumi Kasuke (小泉嘉輔)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Location Shoot] Rokêshon (ロケーション)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
Eiji Nakano (中野英治)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

               
[Nikkatsu Kansai Studio] Nikkatsu Kansai Satsueijo (日活関西撮影所)

Print Date: 02/01/27
Artist: ?
Published: Supplement to Dai Nikkatsu (大日活) magazine
Medium: Machine printed lithographic sugoroku
Personal Collection 
 
 
 
 

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?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

Plays: Shichi Kiochi (七騎落);  Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); Takatoki (高時); 
Tsuzura Ori (九十九折); Wakanoura (和歌の浦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/04/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Shichi Kiochi (七騎落);  Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki (双蝶々曲輪日記); Takatoki (高時);
Tsuzura Ori (九十九折); Wakanoura (和歌の浦)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  03/04/27
Print Date: 03/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Operas: The Tales of Hoffman; Carmen; Khovanschina; Faust; Samson and Delilah;
Boris Godunov; Lakmé; Sadko
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/26/27 - 05/05/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by the Russian Grand Opera.
 
 
 

Plays: Genpei Seisuiki (源平盛衰記); Nanbuzaka (南部坂); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵); Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/03/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Genpei Seisuiki (源平盛衰記); Nanbuzaka (南部坂); Shuzenji Monogatari (修禅寺物語);
Shigure no Kotatsu (時雨の炬燵); Kyôkaku Harusame Gasa (侠客春雨傘)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  04/03/27
Print Date: 04/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Shibata Katsuie (柴田勝家); Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Botan Toki (牡丹燈記); Hishaku Zake (柄杓酒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Shibata Katsuie (柴田勝家); Shinpan Utazaimon (新版歌祭文); Kagami Jishi (鏡獅子);
Botan Toki (牡丹燈記); Hishaku Zake (柄杓酒)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/03/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

                    
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Nan Yohê (南与兵衛)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Imosaka no Jinbei (芋坂の甚兵衛)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Asazuma (浅妻)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Omiwa (お三輪)
 
Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓) ; Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki ( 双蝶々曲輪日記); 
Asazuma-bune ( 浅妻船);  Yakudoshi ( 厄年)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Motome (求女)
 
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as Tachibana-hime (橘姫)
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as Nan Yohê (南与兵衛)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as Fukashichi (鱶七)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as  Imosaka no Jinbei (芋坂の甚兵衛)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Asazuma (浅妻)
 
Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎; 澤村宗十郎) as Omiwa (お三輪)
 
Plays:  Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓) ; Futatsu Chôchô
Kuruwa Nikki ( 双蝶々曲輪日記); Asazuma-bune ( 浅妻船);  Yakudoshi ( 厄年)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  06/02/27
Print Date: 06/1927?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover 
 
Note: The reason for two extra figures is unknown.  The prior sujigaki lists
Kikugorô VI as Motome (and Tokizô III as Tachibana-hime).  It is possible
that Omezô IV took over the role after the opening and new sujigaki was
printed to reflect that change. 
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Otto ni Somuku Nakare (良人に背く勿れ); Yotsuya no Banashi (四谷五更話); Rusuban (留守番);
Kaidô Issekiwa (海道一夕話); Tanpen Kigeki (短篇喜劇)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/01/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Medium: Machine lithographic printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

Plays: Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura  (義經千本櫻); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪);
Hachiman Matsuri Yomiya no Nigiwai (八幡祭小望月賑)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  07/02/27
Print Date: 07/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki back cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: Performed by Carpi's Italian Grand Opera Co.
 
 
 

                    
Plays: Kagayaku Sekai  (ballet) (輝く世界); Tsuki ni Utau Ogei no Hitofushi (月謡萩江一節); 
Dôin Souwa (動員挿話); Kunisada Chûji Gyō (国定忠次御用); Ichiharano (市原野)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  09/0127
Print Date: 09/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as Onagi (おなぎ)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as Urado Jûzaemon (浦戸十左衛門)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as Shishi no Sei (獅子の精)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助)  as Chûrô Ejishima (中臈江島)
 
Plays:  Ejima Ikushima (江島生島); Shin Sarayashiki Tsuki no
Amagasa (新皿屋舗月雨暈); Shunkyô Kagami Jishi (春興鏡獅子);
Taiheiki Asahi no Yoroi (太平記曦鎧)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/03/27
Print Date: 10/1927?
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
 
 
 

                    
Concert: [Efrem Zimbalist Grand Concert] Efuremu Jinbabrisu to Shidai Ongakukai
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  11/26-30/27
Print Date: 11/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Play:  Kirisuto (キリスト); Kaisen Atakemaru (怪船安宅丸)
Performance Place: Hongô-za, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/02/27
Print Date: 12/1927?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                    
Plays:  Hosokawa Chi Daruma (細川血達摩); Imoseyama Michiyuki (妹背山道行);
Honganji Engi (本願寺縁起); Komochi Yamanba (嫗山姥); Horikawa Youchi (堀河夜討);
Yûgiri Izaemon (夕ぎり伊左衛門); Katsudô Kyô Jidai (活動狂時代);
Shôchikubai Yushima no Kakegaku (松竹梅湯島掛額)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/1927?]
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the ARC Research Center
 
 
 

                    
Ichikawa Omezô IV (市川男女蔵) as
Kuniiri-yakko (國入奴)
 
Nakamura Kichiemon I (中村吉右衛門) as
Kumagai Jirô Naozane (熊谷次郎直実)
 
Nakamura Fukusuke V (中村福助) as
Fuji Musume (藤娘)
  
Nakamura Tokizô III (中村時蔵) as
Sagami (相模)
 
Bandô Hikosaburô VI (坂東彦三郎) as
Saemon (左衛門)
 
Onoe Kikugorô VI (尾上菊五郎) as
Kurobê (九郎兵衛)
 
Bandô Mitsugorô VII (坂東三津五郎) as
Hyakushô Manbê (百姓万兵衛)
 
Plays:  Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記);
Ôtsue (大津絵);  Tachi Nusubito (太刀盗人);
Tsuta Momiji Utsunoya Tôge (蔦紅葉宇都谷峠)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  12/01/27
Print Date: 12/04/27
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Personal Collection
 
 
 

Coming Soon! A Performance by
Shôkyokusai Tenkatsu (松旭斎天勝)
and the Tenkatsu Ichiza Troupe, with
Magic Tricks, Music, Dance, and
Comedy Skit
 
Print Date: 1927
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
 
 

       
        Rabbit in Moon

        Play: Tama Usagi (玉兎)
        Print Date: 1927
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts
 
 
 

       
        Ichikawa Momonosuke
        (市川百々之助) as Murasame
        Kingorô (村雨金五郎)

        Film: Murasame Kingorô
        (村雨金五郎)
        Performance Place: ?
        Release Date: 1927
        Print Date: 1927?
        Artist: ?
        Medium: Woodblock printed
        postcard
        Image courtesy of the Boston
        Museum of Fine Arts