was a Japanese kabuki performer. He was a prominent member of a family of kabuki actors from the
Keihanshin
is a metropolitan region in the Kansai region of Japan encompassing the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto in Kyoto Prefecture, Osaka in Osaka Prefecture and Kobe in Hyōgo Prefecture. The entire region has a population () of 19,302,746 o ...
region.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005).
Nakamura Utaemon was a stage name with significant cultural and historical connotations.
Life and career
Utaemon IV was believed to be the artistic heir of Nakamura Utaemon III. 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.
; Lineage of Utaemon stage names
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Nakamura Utaemon I
was a Japanese kabuki performer. He was the progenitor of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005). He was the son of a provincial doctor. As a youth, he decided to join a troupe of acto ...
(1714–1791)
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Nakamura Utaemon II
was a Japanese kabuki performer in the lineage of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric ''et al.'' (2005).
Nakamura Utaemon is a stage name.
Life and career
In 1782, Utaemon I presented this name to ...
(1752-1798)
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Nakamura Utaemon III
was a Japanese kabuki performer. He was a prominent member of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005).
Nakamura Utaemon was a stage name with significant cultural and historical connotatio ...
(1778–1838)
* Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798–1852)
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Nakamura Utaemon V
was a Japanese kabuki performer and "dean of kabuki actors at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo".
* Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001)
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Kabuki actors
1798 births
1852 deaths
19th-century Japanese male actors
People from Tokyo
Male actors from Tokyo