Ichikawa Ennosuke III, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ichikawa Ennosuke III

Japanese actor

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1939

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Profession: actor, impresario, kabuki actor

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


Show Famous Birthdays Today, Japan

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Ichikawa Ennosuke III

  • Ichikawa Ennosuke III (??? ?? ???, Sandaime Ichikawa Ennosuke, b.
  • 9 December 1939) is a Japanese kabuki actor, famous for his love of keren (stage tricks).
  • He is considered the king of chunori; he has flown out over the audience, held aloft on strings, over 5000 times. Ennosuke made his stage debut at the age of eight, at the Tokyo Gekijo, as Ichikawa Danko III.
  • He would formally take the name Ennosuke in 1963, at the age of 24.
  • He is the brother of Ichikawa Danshiro IV; their father is Danshiro III, and their mother is Sanae Takasugi.
  • Their great-grandfather and grandfather, respectively, were the first and second to be called Ichikawa Ennosuke. Ennosuke is known as a great proponent of dramatic costumes, flamboyant theater signage, and stage tricks (keren), which are looked down upon by many kabuki connoisseurs as "playing to the gallery" and as distracting from the true dramatic art.
  • Nevertheless, among those who enjoy keren, Ennosuke is quite well regarded.
  • He performed chunori for the first time in 1968, as the fox in Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, and for the five thousandth time in 2000, as Guan Yu.
  • He has revived a number of old plays, including Date no Juyaku (The Ten Roles of Date), in which he played ten roles in one performance, through the use of a number of methods of hayagawari (costume quick-change). In November 2003, Ennosuke suffered from symptoms of a stroke, and did not perform for most of the following year.
  • He stopped performing in 2004 and retired under the name of Ichikawa En'no II in 2012. His son is the actor Teruyuki Kagawa.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also