Hit Play at the Shin-Tomiza: Actors Nakamura Ganjirô as Chûbei and Nakamura Fukusuke as Umegawa
Description
A theater program for a production at the Shin-Tomiza featuring actors Nakamura Ganjiro as Chubei and Nakamura Fukusuke as Umegawa — protagonists of "Meido no Hikyaku," the Joruri play about a doomed love affair — is rendered in Yumeji's distinctive illustrative style. Chubei and Umegawa are among the most celebrated lovers in Japanese theater, their story of romantic obsession overriding duty and leading to shared death a natural subject for Yumeji, whose own work was built around the pathos of impossible love. The theater context frames his characteristic emotional subjects.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hit Play at the Shin-Tomiza: Actors Nakamura Ganjirô as Chûbei and Nakamura Fukusuke as Umegawa was created by Takehisa Yumeji (竹久夢二).
Hit Play at the Shin-Tomiza: Actors Nakamura Ganjirô as Chûbei and Nakamura Fukusuke as Umegawa depicts kabuki.