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Onoe Kikugorō VII<br>七代目尾上菊五郎[[Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text]][[Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text]]

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Onoe Kikugorō VII
七代目尾上菊五郎
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Onoe Kikugorō VII.
BornHideyuki Terajima[1]
(1942-10-02) 2 October 1942 (age 81)[2]
Tokyo, Japan
Other namesOnoe Kikunosuke IV
Onoe Ushinosuke V
💼 Occupation
👩 Spouse(s)
Sumiko Fuji (m. 1972)
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👶 ChildrenShinobu Terajima
Onoe Kikunosuke V
👴 👵 Parent(s)
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Onoe Kikugorō VII(born October 2, 1942) is a Japanese Kabuki, film, television actor. He is the current and the seventh holder of the traditional Onoe Kikugorō name. His Yagō is Otowaya. His Jōmon (iconic Mon (emblem)) is "Kasane Ōgi ni Daki Gashiwa"(Folding oak leaf in stacking fans) and the alternative Mon is "Yotsuwa"(four circles)[2]. He is a Member of the Japan Art Academy and Living National Treasure of Japan(Ningen Kokuhō) as he has the individual certification of Kabuki(Tachiyaku)[2].

His real name (legal name) is Hideyuki Terajima. His spouse is Sumiko Fuji. He has two children. One is famous movie star Shinobu Terajima and the other is his successor Onoe Kikunosuke V

biography & personality[edit]

In his twenties age with the name "Onoe Kikunosuke IV", he achieved significant popularity as a part of "Sannosuke" (Three actors who has "nosuke" in their names; Ichikawa Shinnosuke (VI), Onoe Kikunosuke(V) and Onoe Tatsunosuke(I))[3]. He played the main role of NHK Taiga drama as youngest age on the time on Minamoto no Yoshitsune (TV series). He later married with Sumiko Fuji who co-played Yoshitsune's mistress Shizuka Gozen on the drama. He used to act Onnagata mainly, but as he adds the years he gains his masculine and came to take part of Tachiyaku mainly[4].

Onoe Kikugorō VII is the modern Kabuki's star, common for Onoe family's Sewamono plays, especially the greatest ever when he plays small-time crook of Edo[4]. He presides the Kabuki theater company "Onoe Kikugorō Gekidan (Onoe Kikugorō Company., or the Kikugoro troupe[5])" for handing down the traditions of Edo Kabuki as his life work[2].

Currently, he was working with deceased Nakamura Kichiemon II to take care of their grand child Onoe Ushinosuke VII (Kazufumi Terajima) to grow up him as a Kabuki actor. (Kichiemon was the father of the spouse of Kikunosuke V.)

Yearbook[edit]

  • 1942 October 2nd Born in Tokyo Prefecture as the eldest son of celebrated Onoe Baikō VII with his birth name Hideyuki Terajima(寺島秀幸)[5]. He has elder sister and younger brother.
  • 1948 April Succeeded the name Onoe Ushinosuke as fifth, with playing Kamuro of "Sukeroku kuruwa no Kiku" (『助六曲輪菊』)in Shimbashi Embujo[2][5].
  • 1965 May Succeeded the name Onoe Kikunosuke as fourth, with playing Jūrō in "Kotobuki Soga no Taimen"(『寿曽我対面』) and the others in Kabuki-za[2][5].
  • 1966 Taiga drama Minamoto no Yoshitsune (TV series) main role[5].
  • 1972 main role (co-starred with Yuki Meguro) on "Yaji kita Onmitsu Dōchū"(『弥次喜多隠密道中』) Married with Sumiko Fuji who co-starred in Yoshitsune. Their daughter Shinobu born.
  • 1973 October - November Succeeded the name Onoe Kikugorō as seventh, with playing 'Benten Kozō' Kikunosuke on "Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami"(『弁天娘女男白浪』), Shirabyoshi Hanako on "Kyōganoko Musume Dōjōji"(『京鹿子娘道成寺』) and the others[2][5].
  • 1977 eldest son Kazuyasu (later Onoe Kikunosuke V) born.
  • 2000 become a Member of the Japan Art Academy[5]
  • 2003 certified as Living National Treasure[6][2]. Following his grandfather Onoe Kikugorō VI and his father Onoe Baikō VII[7].

References[edit]

  1. While the stage names of all kabuki actors have retained traditional order (Surname-Givenname) on Wikipedia, birth names of those born after the Meiji Restoration are in Western order (Givenname-Surname).
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  3. 3.0 3.1 Shôriya Aragorô. "ONOE KIKUGORÔ VII". Kabuki21.com. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kunio Suzuki (March 2018). "尾上菊五郎|時事用語事典". Imidas(情報・知識&オピニオン imidas - イミダス). Shueisha. Retrieved 2022-07-16. Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Profile|OTOWAYA (the Official website)
  6. "Kabuki actor Onoe Kikugoro and nine others were selected Friday by a cultural panel to be named living national treasures, according to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry."
    "10 to be honored as living treasures". The Japan Times. 2003-06-21. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  7. "尾上菊五郎を人間国宝まで導いた妻・富司純子の功績!娘、息子は?". 斜め上からこんにちは. Retrieved 2022-07-16. Script error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.

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