Kabuki actor and human national treasure Tojuro Sakata (real name Kotaro Hayashi = Hayashi Kotaro) died in a hospital in Tokyo on the 14th at 10:42 am due to aging. You understand it. 88 years. His wife is Chikage Ogi, an actress who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Speaker of the House of Representatives. My sister is the actress Tamao Nakamura.

In January this year, Mr. Fujijuro canceled “Shou Hatsuharu Daikabuki” at Shochikuza in Osaka due to back pain. The final stage was “Kinkakuji” at “Kikyuu Kaomi Seiko” in Minamiza, Kyoto, which ran from late November to December 26 last year. It is said that he appeared in the same performance while suffering from back pain.

Due to the spread of the new corona virus, Kabuki entertainment has been canceled one after another since March. The performance resumed in August at Kabukiza in Tokyo, but it was not possible to return to the stage.

It is a symbol of Kami Kabuki and the president of the Japan Actors Association. In both name and reality, it was the top of the Kabuki world.

It had the same elegance and grace no matter how many times it was done. Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s “Sonezaki Shinchu” heroine Ohatsu, who served for the first time at the age of 21, was shocked to play again even after age 80. In 2015, when she landed her first role 1400 times in Hakataza, Fukuoka, there was an unusual curtain call in Kabuki. Mr. Juro Fuji said, “Ohatsu changed my Kabuki life. Even if I play 1400 times, I am living a new life every time.”

There were many winning roles in a wide range of roles, such as the role of a daughter, the role that is said to be a major female role like Masaoka from “Kara Sendai Hagi”, and the role of a man.

In my private life, when I was 70 years old, I had an affair with a 19-year-old Maiko, but in the interview, Mr. Fujijuro said: “Youth for life. It was sent. The fan did not move, and it became on a hot topic for the first time in a couple with a generous amount of money.

◆ Tojuro Sakata Born in Kyoto prefecture on December 31, 1931 (Showa 6). The name of the store is Yamashiroya. Kojiro Nakamura’s second generation eldest son. In 1941, the second generation of Nakamura Ogijaku was named and the first stage in Kintoki from Kakuza “Yamabo” in Osaka. In 1993, he premiered the first Shimbashi performance hall “Sonezaki Shinchu” and sparked a “fan sparrow boom”. In November 1990, the third generation Kojiro was named in Kabukiza “Yoshidaya” and “Kawasho”. In December 2005, he was named fourth generation Tojuro Sakata in the “New Year of Yugiri Remnants” in Minamiza, Kyoto. Certified as a national human treasure in 1994. 2003, Cultural Merit, 2009 Cultural Medal. Married to Chikage Ogi in 1983. The eldest son is Kojiro Nakamura, the fourth generation, and the second son is the third generation Nakamura Ogijaku. My grandchildren are Ichitaro Nakamura and Toranosuke Nakamura.