MEI LANFANG (梅兰芳)
10/22/1894 - 08/08/1961

                 
 
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

                    
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 Ranfan (梅蘭芳)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date:  10/25/24 - 11/04/24
Print Date: 10/1924?
Medium: Woodbock printed ehon sujigaki cover
Image courtesy of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
 
 
 

                
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
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