Onoe Shōroku II

Onoe Shōroku II, (born March 28, 1913, Tokyo, Japan—died June 25, 1989, Tokyo) was a Japanese kabuki actor, one of the foremost interpreters of the classical kabuki plays, who specialized in female roles (all kabuki players are male). Yutaka Fujima made his debut at the age of five as Ushiwakamaru at the Teikoku Theatre in the kabuki drama Shusse Kagekiyo, about the 12th-century hero Taira no Kagekiyo. After starring in Neiboku sendai hagi (“The...