435 results found for: Kabuki-Mono Keiji
Ito Kisaku
Stage artist. His older brother, Michio, was a dancer, and his younger brother, Koreya Senda, was a director. Graduated from the Western Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo University of the Arts). Yoshi Hijikata devoted himself to performing arts, starting with the Model Stage…
Eliana Pavlova
Eliana Pavlova is a Japanese ballerina from Russia, born in Tbilisi in the Caucasus. She was naturalized in 1937 and her Japanese name is Kirishima Eriko. She taught ballet in Yokohama and later in Kamakura, and is known as the first person to take ballet root in Japan, which lead to being called the…
Kawarasaki Kunitaro IV
Kawarasaki Kunitarô IV was a promising wakaonnagata actor, who excelled in daughter and princess roles but unfortunately died (a mysterious way) too young. He spent a few years in a Shinpa troupe in the forties of the Meiji era and was also involved in the early modern stage projects of Ichikawa Ennosuke…
Matsumoto Taisuke
Matsumoto Taisuke was a Japanese actor born in Tachikawa-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. He was a big star who starred in a large number of historical and contemporary dramas, mainly films directed by Ito Daisuke, in Teikoku Kinema and Nikkatsu. In 1911, he dropped out of the old Tokyo Academy…
Ichikawa Ennosuke II
Ichikawa En'ô I was a revolutionary and dynamic actor, who created many new dances. Ichikawa En'ô I's best dance-dramas were gathered in 1964 by his grandson Ichikawa Ennosuke III in a special collection named En'ô Jûshu: "Akutarô", "Kurozuka", "Kôya Monogurui", "Kokaji", "Koma", "Ninin Sanbasô",…
Ihara Toshio
Author, Playwright, and critic. Born in Matsue . Dropped out of Daiichi High School , joined 26 Shinpo in 1893, and wrote a drama review under the name of Seiseien. Become familiar with Tsubouchi Shoyo . Joined Miyako Shinbun in 1896 . In 1900, he launched "Kabuki" with Takeji Miki, and won the Asahi…
Onoe Kozo II
Onoe Kôzô II was a tachiyaku actor, who was active from the beginning of the 1860s to the first half of the 1930s. He performed in ôshibai as a supporting actor and in koshibai as a leading actor. In koshibai, he was a mainstay at the Kotobukiza. His most famous performances were in roles like Gonta…
Shibata Zentaro
In 1897, he was introduced to Otojiro Kawakami , who was performing a calligraphy play at Nakamura-za in Torigoe, and continued to appear as an actor.soon he was promoted to an executive role as a military attaché of the Qing Dynasty in the "Nissin War" . Kabuki was out also, Takeo officers per new…
Ichikawa Sumizo VI
Ichikawa Jukai III was an outstanding tachiyaku actor, excelling in nimaime roles. From the end of the Meiji era to the first decade of the Shôwa era, he was an active member of the troupe led by Ichikawa Sadanji II, which was involved in the creations of many Shinkabuki dramas, written by playwrights…
Ichikawa Sadanji II
Ichikawa Sadanji II was one of the most popular actors in Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. He was an open-minded reformist, working hard to promote new plays, and an adept of revivals of long-forgotten classical dramas. His close collaborations with Okamoto Kidô, Osanai Kaoru and Mayama…
