UTAGAWA YOSHIIKU (歌 川芳幾) 

 1901




MARCH


Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
Fujii Montayû (藤井紋太夫)



Play: Zokusetsu Bidan Kômonki
(俗説美談黄門記)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/20/01
Print Date: 03/19/01
Image courtesy of the Tokyo
Metropolitan Central Library

 
 



   Ichikawa Danjûrô IX   
   (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as 
   Mitokômon (水戸黄門)
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MAY


Onoe Eizaburô V (尾上栄三郎) as
Machi Onna Kaede (待女かへで)



Play: Yoni Hibiku Taiko no Isaoshi 
(世響太鼓功)
Performance Place: Kabuki-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/16/01
Print Date: 05/1901
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum
 




   Onoe Kikugorô V (尾上菊五郎) as
   Tori Hikoemon (鳥井彦右衛門)
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   Ichikawa Danjûrô IX   
   (市川団十郎; 市川團十郎) as 
   Sakai Saemon (酒井左衛門)
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Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Print Date: 05/11/01
Personal Collection
       
Note: This was a play based in part on Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺) which Sadayakko performed in the United States and in
Europe between September 1899 and November 1900.  Presumably, this print
was made to commemorate her performance abroad and/or as a souvenir for
purchase during her upcoming second European tour, which lasted from June
1901 to July 1902.  Sadayakko and her husband Kawakami Otojirô
(川上音二郎) would eventually perform a version of this play in Tokyo at
the Meiji-za in June 1909 under the title Geisha to Bushi (芸者と武士).  The
print is based on a photograph by the French photographer Paul Nadar that
was used as a color cliché cover for the October 2, 1900 of Le Théâtre
magazine.
 
 
 



UNKNOWN MONTH

 
Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎) as Nagoya Sanza (名古屋山三)

Kawakami Sadayakko (川上貞奴) as Keisei Katsuragi (傾城葛城)

Play: The Geisha and The Knight
Print Date: 1901
Personal Collection
       
Note: This was a play based in part on Kyôganoko Musume Dôjôji
(京鹿子娘道成寺) which Sadayakko performed in the United
States and in Europe between September 1899 and November 1900.
Presumably, this print was  made to commemorate her performance
abroad and/or as a souvenir for purchase during her upcoming
second European tour, which lasted from from June 1901 to July
1902.  Sadayakko and her husband Kawakami Otojirô (川上音二郎)
would eventually perform a version of this play in Tokyo at the Meiji-
za in June 1909 under the title Geisha to Bushi (芸者と武士).  The
print is based on a photograph by Joseph Byron of the final act of
The Geisha and The Knight performed at the Berkeley Lyceum
Theatre in New York City in March 1900.