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Onoe Kikunosuke V

Born on 1 August 1977 as the eldest son of Onoe Kikugoro VII.

He made his stage debut February 1984 at Tokyo’s Kabukiza Theatre in the title role of Ehon Ushiwakamaru, taking the name Onoe Ushinosuke VI. He danced notably with his grandfather Onoe Baikô VII and father Kikugoro VII at the Kabukiza in Kyokanoko Musume Sannin Dojoji in 1992.

Kikunosuke assumed his present name with his performance as Benten Kozo in Shiranami Gonin Otoko at the Kabukiza in May 1996.

Kikunosuke’s virtuoso performance in Yukio Ninagawa’s Kabuki adaptation of Twelfth Night in 2005 earned him multiple awards, including the Yomiuri Theatre Awards’ Sugimura Haruko Prize, the Asahi Performing Arts Awards’ Terayama Shuji Prize, and the Education and Culture Minister’s Arts Encouragement Prize for New Artists.

In recent years, he has played an ambitious range of parts spanning both period pieces and domestic dramas, from some of Kabuki’s most iconic female roles (Masaoka in Meiboku Sendai Hagi, Tamate Gozen in Sesshu Gappo ga Tsuji, Yatsuhashi in Kagotsurube) to dance pieces (Kyokanoko Musume Dojoji, Shunkyo Kagami Jishi) to major male roles like the title characters in Sakanaya Somegoro, Kamiyui Shinzo and Ichijo Okura Monogatari and Tomomori in Yoshitsune Senbonzakura. He also originated the central role in an epic new Kabuki piece entitled Mahābārata Senki (The War Chronicles of the Mahābhārata) based on the classic Indian tale at the Kabukiza in 2017.

Awards

• 1996   Asakusa Performing Arts Awards
  – New Artists Prize
• 2002   Matsuo Performing Arts Award for Drama
  – Best Newcomer
• 2005   12th Yomiuri Theatre Awards
  – Sugimura Haruko Prize
• 2006   5th Asahi Performing Arts Awards
  – Terayama Shuji Prize
• 56th Education and Culture Minister’s
  Arts Encouragement Prize for New Artists
• 13th Yomiuri Theatre Awards
  – Best Performance by an Actor
• 2011   18th Yomiuri Theatre Awards
  – Best Performance by an Actor
• 2013   19th Yomiuri Theatre Awards
  – Best Performance by an Actor