UNKNOWN CINEMAS


JULY 1920

                   
[Interior of a Cinema Theater]
Katsudō shashin-kan naibu (活動写真館内部)

Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: 1920?
Print Date: 07/1920
Artist: Oda Kazuma (織田一磨)
Series: Sekiban yoru saku hana to hanga no kai-ten
(Shiseidô)
( 夜咲く花と版画の会展（資生堂）)
Medium: Stone lithograph
Image Courtesy of the University of Michigan
Museum of Art
 
 




APRIL 1925

                 
[Musicians Before Movie] Eiga Maeno Gakushi (映画前ノ楽師)

Print Date: 04/1925
Artist: Ikeda Shingo (池田信吾)
Published in Mura no Hanga (村の版画), No. 3
 





1927

                   
Rajio to Katsudô (ラヂオと活動) [Radio and Movies (1925)]

Date: 1927
Artist: Morishima Naozô (森島直三)
Series: Nikuhitsu Manga Kaikoku Rokujūnen-shi Zue
(肉筆漫画 開国六十年史図絵)
[Manga Paintings of Sixty Years of History Since the
Opening of the Country]
Medium: Watercolor
Image courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art

Note: Although paintings are normally outside the scope of
this website except as reference images, the watercolors in
this collaborative series were issued in an edition of 50 and
thus turn up with some frequency in the marketplace. 
Since each is handpainted, lines, colors, and patterns may
vary from copy to copy. 
 

1931


LOVE SCENE

Publication:  Kusa to Kaze (艸と風), 第 1 号
Date: 1931
Artist: Takeo (竹雄)
 
 


 

OCTOBER 1932


[Cinema] Kinema (キネマ)

Publication: Shiro to Kuro (白と黒), 第 28 号
Date: 10/01/32
Artist: Taninaka Yasunori (谷中規展)
 
Note: Although the image is in black and white,
the print is in color.
 
 
 
 

 

 

JANUARY 1933



[Cinema] Shinema ( しねま)

Artist: Fujimaki Yoshio (藤牧義夫)
Published in Shin Hanga (新版画), Vol. 7 (January 1, 1933)
Personal Collection
 
 
 


    


       
        [Usherette] An'nai Hito (案内人)
 
        Artist:  Matsushita Yoshio (松下義雄)
        Published in Shin Hanga (新版画), Vol. 7  (January 1, 1933)
        Personal Collection


    

1992


[Movie Show in a School Playground] Kotei de Eiga-kai (校庭で映画会)

Print Date: 1992 (ed. 100)
Artist: Nomura Takaaki (野村たかあき)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com