OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1924

Chinese Actor (aka Chinese Actor in a Role of a General)

Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: October 25, 1924 - November 4, 1924
Print Date: 1924
Artist: Elizabeth Keith
Image courtesy of the Jordan Schnitzer 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.    

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
Artist: Yamamura Kôka (山村耕花)
*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.
 
 
 
     

                    
Plays: Kamikaze (神風); Momiji no Eneshi no Shirahari (紅葉宴衛士白張);
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談); Mei Lanfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
Note: The cover depicts Morita Kan'ya XIII (守田勘弥; 守田勘彌) as Kôno Rokurô Michiari
(河野六郎通有), Matsumoto Kôshirô VII (松本幸四郎) as ?, and Sawamura Sôjûrô VII (沢村宗十郎;
澤村宗十郎) as Hôjô Sagam-no-Kami Tokimune (北條相模守時宗) in Kamikaze (神風); and  Onoe
Baikô VI (尾上梅幸) as Otsuma (お妻) and  Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as O-Rin (お臨) in
Otsuma Hachirobê Ryôgoku Kôdan (おつま八郎兵衛兩國巷談).