YAMAMURA KÔKA (山村耕花)
aka Yamamura Toyonari (山村豊成)
1924
Shina shibai seichû den hoshi banryû (支那芝居 精忠伝星蠻龍)
[Actor in a Chinese Opera]
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: October 25, 1924 - November 4, 1924
Print Date: 1924
*Image courtesy of The Ringling Museum of Art
Note: This print reflects a performance of one of the following
Chinese
productions which played at the Teikoku Gekijô: Magu Xian Shou;
Daiyu
Zang Hua; Guifei Zui Jiu; Jingju Yubei Ting; Kunqu Youyuan
Jingmeng;
Ianü San Hua; and Hongni Guan (The Rainbow Pass). The
Chinese troupe
also performed at the Takarazuka Daigekijô in Tokyo between
November 7
and 11, 1924.
The Peking Opera star Mei Langfang (梅兰芳), who previously appeared
in
Tokyo in 1919, was invited back in 1924 to perform on the occasion
of the
opening of the recently rebuilt Teikoku theater and for the
celebration of
Ôkura Kihachirô’s eighty-eighth birthday. However, since Mei
Langfang
typically performed in female roles, it is likely that another
actor of his troupe
is depicted in this print.
UNKNOWN MONTH
[Dancing at the New Carlton Hotel in Shanghai]
Odori Shanhai Nyu Karuton shoken (踊り 上海ニューカルトン所見)
Print Date: 1924
*Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts