Onoe Kikugorou (3rd generation)

Japanese: 尾上菊五郎(3世) - おのえきくごろう[さんせい]
Onoe Kikugorou (3rd generation)
[Born] Tenmei 4 (1784)
[Died] 1849. Edo Kabuki actor. Stage name Otowaya. Adopted son of the first Onoe Matsusuke. Former name Matsusuke II. In 1815, he succeeded to the third name. He played leading roles and also played female roles. He excelled in live comedy, and gained fame for his work on ghost stories by Tsuruya Nanboku. A great actor of the Bunka era.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information

Japanese:
[生]天明4(1784)
[没]嘉永2(1849).江戸
歌舞伎俳優。屋号音羽屋。1世尾上松助の養子。前名2世松助。文化 12 (1815) 年3世襲名。立役で女方も兼ねた。生世話物を得意とし,鶴屋南北の怪談劇で名声を得た。化政期の名優。

出典 ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典について 情報

<<:  Onoe Kikugorou (IV)

>>:  Onoe Kikugorou (II)

Recommend

The Divine Emperor's Righteous Record

This work was written by Kitabatake Chikafusa, a ...

Kongo-ryu

A school of Noh. One of the five schools of shite...

Viola

...A perennial plant of the Violaceae family (ill...

lighter

… Interspecies hybrids between tigers and lions a...

Godefroy de Bouillon (English spelling) GodefroydeBouillon

...As a result, the Crusader states suffered for ...

Ilya Muromets

…It is a compilation of oral folk tales, epics, h...

Assembly Language - Assembly Language

A computer programming language. The machine code ...

Uneven-aged forest - Ireirin

A forest where trees of different ages grow togeth...

Wind octet - kangaku hachijuusou

...That is, a quartet consisting of only string i...

Jan Swammerdam - Jan Swammerdam

Dutch naturalist and anatomist. Born in Amsterdam...

Yura [town] - Yura

A town in Hidaka County in western Wakayama Prefec...

Fishing - Tsurigyogyo

Fishing is a method of fishing in which a hook is ...

Tokugawa Iemitsu

The third Shogun of the Edo Shogunate (in office ...

Emperor Hongwu (Hong-wu-di; Hung-wu-ti)

Born in 1328 in Australia [Died] Hongwu 31 (1398),...