MEI LANFANG (梅兰芳)
10/22/1894 - 08/08/1961
MAY 1919
Plays: Honchô Nijûshikô (本朝廿四孝); Gogatsu no Asa (五月の朝);
Noroi (呪);
Mei Ranfan [Mei Lanfang] Shinageki (梅蘭芳支那劇); Musume Jishi (娘獅子)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 05/01/19
Print Date: 05/1919?
Artist: Torii Kiyotada (鳥居清忠)
Medium: Woodblock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
c. 1940s
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
1973
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
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