Unknown Artist

UNKNOWN ARTIST

1941

JANUARY

New Year's Card from Soganoya
Goro: Signpost under Cherry Blossoms,
Reading "Service for the Bell [at Dôjô-ji]--
The Metal Has Gone for the War Effort"

Play: Musume Dôjôji (娘道成寺)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts

APRIL

Working Together with All Our Might
(一億一心打込め東亜の磯):
Announcement of a Performance by
Soganoya Gorô, Opening April 12

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: 04/12/41
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts

JULY

Plays: Byakkotai (白虎隊); Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻); Modoribashi (戻橋);
Kanadehon Chûshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵; 假名手本忠臣蔵)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shôchiku Ôtani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Môjôzakura Tsuki no Yashiro (盲杖桜雪社); Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓);
Chikagoro Kawara no Tatehiki (近頃河原の達引); Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑);
Sekitori Senryô Nobori (関取千両幟)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/01/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Tsurionna (釣女); Rôben Sugi no Yurai (良弁杉由来); Ehon Taikôki (絵本太功記); Shinpan
Utazaimon (新版歌祭文)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/11/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Imoseyama Onna Teikin (妹背山婦女庭訓); Meihitsudomo no Matahei (名筆吃又平); Ten no
Amijima Shigure no Kotatsu (天網島時雨炬燵); Kagamiyama Kokyô no Nishikie (加賀見山旧錦絵);
Shôutsushi Asagao Nikki (生写朝顔日記)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/21/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻); Keisei Awa no Naruto (傾城阿波の鳴戸);
Ichinotani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Momijigari ( 紅葉狩); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記); Kuruwa Bunshō (曲輪文章)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/26/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Kokusenya Kassen (国性爺合戦); Kokaji (小鍛冶); Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来);
Sesshû Gappô-ga-tsuji (摂州合邦辻); Satogeshiki Futatsu Zôshi (里げしき双草紙)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/06/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Honchô Nijūshikō (本朝廿四孝); Hana Ueno Homare no Ishibumi (花上野誉碑); Senjinkun
(戦陣訓); Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱); Tsubosaka Kannon Reigenki (壺阪観音霊験記)
Performance Date: 07/16/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Kiichi Hôgen Sanryaku no Maki (鬼一法眼三略巻); Keisei Awa no Naruto (傾城阿波の鳴戸);
Ichinotani Futaba Gunki (一谷嫩軍記); Momijigari ( 紅葉狩); Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki
(双蝶々曲輪日記); Kuruwa Bunshô (曲輪文章)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 07/26/41
Print Date: 07/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

AUGUST

Announcement of Performances by
Soganoya Gorô

Play: Yudan Dai Geki' (油断大劇);
Fujikawa no Gassen (富士川の合戦)
Performance Place: Shinbashi
Enbujô Theater, Tokyo
Performance Date: 08/01/41
Print Date: 1941
Artist: ?
Medium: Woodblock printed
postcard
Image courtesy of the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts

DECEMBER 1941

Bunraku

Plays: Chûshingura (忠臣蔵); Ômi Genji Senjin Yakata (近江源氏先陣館); Sesshû Gappô-ga-tsuji
(摂州合邦辻); Koimusume Mukashi Hachijô (恋娘昔八丈)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/29/41
Print Date: 11/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Koi Nyôbô Somewake Tazuna (恋女房染分手綱); Igagoe Dôchû Sugoroku (伊賀越道中双六);
Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜); Dan no Ura Kabuto Gunki (壇浦兜軍記)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/04/41
Print Date: 121941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Gosho-zakura Horikawa Youchi (御所桜堀川夜討); Hadesugata Onna Maiginu (艶容女舞衣);
Ôshû Adachi-ga-hara (奥州安達原); Tsubosaka Kannon Reigenki (壺坂観音霊験記); Kotobuki
Hashiradate Manzai (寿柱建万歳)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/09/41
Print Date: 12/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑); Sannin Katawa (三人片輪); Genpei
Nunobiki no Taki (源平布引; Akegarasu Yuki no Akebono (明烏六花曙)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/14/41
Print Date: 12/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library

Bunraku

Plays: Date Musume Koi Higanoko (伊達娘恋緋鹿子); Gishi Meimeiden (義士銘々伝); Hibariya
Koseki no Matsu (鷓山古跡松); Ten no Amijima (天網島); Zôho Ôeyama (増補大江山)
Performance Place: Shinbashi Enbujô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 12/19/41
Print Date: 12/1941?
Artist: ?
Medium: Machine lithograph printed? sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Shochiku Otani Library