Nakamura Utaemon V

Nakamura Utaemon V

Nakamura Utaemon dressed as a young bride for the marriage ceremony (Alexander Yakovlev)

Nakamura Utaemon V (中村歌右衛門 (5代目)^?, 1865 — September 11, 1940) was a Japanese kabuki performer and "dean of kabuki actors at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo. ^[1] He was a prominent member of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region. ^[2]

Nakamura Utaemon was a stage name with significant cultural and historical connotations.^[3]

Utaemon V was the artistic heir of Nakamura Utaemon IV. He was born in the fifth generation of a line of famous Kabuki actors. In the conservative Kabuki world, stage names are passed from father to son in formal system which converts the kabuki stage name into a mark of accomplishment.^[4]

Lineage of Utaemon stage names

• Nakamura Utaemon I (1714–1791) ^[5]
• Nakamura Utaemon II (1752-1798) ^[6]
• Nakamura Utaemon III (1778-1838) ^[2]
• Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798-1852) ^[2]
• Nakamura Utaemon V (1865-1940) ^[2]
• Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917-2001) ^[7]

In a long career, he played many roles; but he was best known for his oyama or onnagata roles.^[1]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Nakamura Utaemon VI, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 7 publications in 2 languages and 20+ library holdings.^[8]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• 1950 — Styles of Acting in Kabuki (歌舞伎の型, kabuki no kata^?) OCLC 033711674
• 1935 — Autobiography of Nakamura Utaemon Gosei (歌右衛門自傅, utaemon jiten^?). OCLC 44435876

See also

• Shūmei

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Utaemon Nakamura", New York Times. September 11, 1940.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia, p. 691. at Google Books
3. ^ Kurkup, James. "Nakamura Utaemon VI," The Independent (London). April 6, 2001.
4. ^ Scott, Adolphe C. (1999). The Kabuki Theatre of Japan, p. 159. at Google Books
5. ^ Leiter, Samuel L. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre, pp. 263-264. at Google Books
6. ^ Leiter, Samuel L. (2002). A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance, p. 78 at Google Books
7. ^ Strom, Stephanie. Nakamura Utaemon VI, 84, International Star of Kabuki", New York Times. April 4, 2001.
8. ^ WorldCat Identities: 中村歌右衛門 1865-1940

References

• Leiter, Samuel L. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. 10-ISBN 0810855275; 13-ISBN 9780810855274; OCLC 238637010
• __________. ( 2002). A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance. 10-ISBN 0765607042/13-ISBN 9780765607041; 10-ISBN 0765607050/13-ISBN 9780765607058; OCLC 182632867
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
• Scott, Adolphe Clarence. (1955). The Kabuki Theatre of Japan. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 622644114

Further reading

• 中村歌右衛門. (1935). Autobiography of Nakamura Utaemon V (歌右衛門自伝, utaemon jiden^?). Tokyo: Shūhōen Publishing (秋豊園出版部, shūhōen shuppanbu^?).

External links

• Waseda University, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum

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Name	Nakamura, Utaemon V
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Date of birth	1865
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Date of death	1940
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