$1,000–$15,000. Reproductions and common prints: $1,000–$3,000. Key value factors: Yumeji's popular image means many reproductions exist. Original prints are scarcer and more valued.
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.
歌舞伎
Woodblock print
1955
Woodblock print
1928
Color lithograph
1930
Color lithograph
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.
