CHINESE OPERA

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.
 
 
 
     

[China Play] Shina Shibai (支那芝居)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Artist: Ôkuba Hajime (Kazu) (大久保 ー)
Published in Shin Hanga (新版画),
Vol. 7 (January 1, 1933)
Personal Collection
    
 
 
 

                
[Peking Opera Character with Long Beard]

Print Date: c. 1940s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Woodcut print or Linocut
 
 
 

                
Greeting (Female character from Peking Opera)

Print Date: c. 1940s
Artist: Emma Bormann
 
 
 

                
Mei Lanfang (1)

Print Date: c. 1940s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Woodcut print or Linocut
Image courtesy of Scott Ponemone
 
 
 

                
Mei Lanfang (2) [aka Peking opera character with sword]

Print Date: c. 1940s
Artist: Emma Bormann
Medium: Woodcut print or Linocut
 
 
 
 
 

Mei Lanfang

Print Date: 1973
Artist: Iwata Sentarô (岩田専太郎)
Series: [Beauties During the Three Hundred Years - No. 12, Beauty in the
Early Showa Era] Sanbyakunen no Onna (三百年の女)
Medium: Offset lithograph
Personal Collection
 
 
 
 

[Peking Opera] Kyôgeki (京劇)
 
Date: 1980
Artist: Kurosaki Akira (黒崎彰)
Medium: Woodblock and silkscreen
Series:  [Collection of Woodblock Prints : China]
Mokuhanga Shû: Chugoku (木版画集: 中国)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

Zhao Yun (趙雲)
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 50)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Zhao Yun is a character from the Chinese Opera.

Zhang Fei (張飛)
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 50)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Zhang Fei is a character from the Chinese Opera.
 
 

Guan Yu (關羽)
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 50)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Guan Yu is a character from the Chinese Opera.

Ma Chao (馬超)
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 50)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Ma Chao is a character from the Chinese Opera.
 
 

Huang Zhong (黃忠)
 
Print Date: 1988 (ed. 50)
Artist: Yáng Zhôngyì (楊忠義)
Medium: Etching
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
Note: Huang Zhong is a character from the Chinese Opera.
 

                 
Chines Kun Opera - The Broken Bridge

Opera: The Broken Bridge
Date:  2003 (ed. 10)
Artist: Yuyu Pan
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 

                 
Made in China - Red Series No. 5

Print Date: 2004
Artist: Zhao Tianqi
Medium: Mixed Media
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 
 
 
 

                 
Made in China - Red Series No. 6

Print Date: 2004
Artist: Zhao Tianqi
Medium: Mixed Media
Image courtesy of Artelino.com
 

            
Ni-hao: Continued

Print Date: 2006 (ed. 99)
Artist: Kurita Masahiro (栗田政裕)
Medium: ?
Series: [Imagio & Poetica No. 25]  Imajina & Poetika
(イマジナ&ポエティカ)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

Note: This is a (presumably) real postage stamp
also found in No. 25, and (presumably) also
designed by Kurita Masahiro.  He gave a lecture and a
demonstration session for  he "koguchi-mokuhan"
technique held in the city of Tainan in Taipei.  It depicts
a Peking Opera performer.
 
 
 
 

Model Opera - Grandma
 
Opera: The Red Lantern
Print Date: 2007 (ed. 20)
Artist: Wén Mújiân (文牧江)
Image courtesy of Artelino.com

   
    Model Opera - Teimei
    
    Opera: The Red Lantern
    Print Date: 2007 (ed. 18)
    Artist: Wén Mújiân (文牧江)
    Image courtesy of Artelino.com