Matsui Sumako

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Portrait of Sumako Matsui, before 1919

Matsui Sumako ( Japanese 松井 須 磨子 , actually Kobayashi Masako ( 小 林正子 ); * November 1 ? 1886 in Kiyono , Hanishina-gun (today: Matsushiromachi -Kiyono, Nagano ), Nagano Prefecture ; † January 5, 1919 ) was one Japanese actress in the early days of Shingeki ( New Theater ) and singer .

Life

The youngest daughter of a samurai family came to Tokyo in 1902 to work in the business of one of her sisters.

In 1909 she found connection to the theater group Bungei Kyōkai (Society for Performing Arts), which was directed by Tsubouchi Shōyō and Shimamura Hōgetsu (1871-1918). In 1911 she played in the group u. a. Ophelia and William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the title roles in Henrik Ibsen's Nora or Ein Puppenheim und Hermann Sudermanns Heimat . Because of an affair with Hōgetsu she had to leave the troupe in 1913 and founded the company Geijutsuza with this , which had great success with plays such as The Resurrection (based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy ) and Oscar Wilde's Salome . The song Katyusha no Uta ( カ チ ュ ー シ ャ の 歌 , Kachūsha no Uta ) sung by her in The Resurrection , composed by Nakayama Shimpei , became a national hit in 1914 and is considered one of the first pieces of Japanese pop music, which would later be called Ryūkōka .

After Hōgetsu suddenly died of the Spanish flu in November 1918 , Matsui committed suicide by hanging two months later.

Her life was filmed in 1947 by Mizoguchi Kenji under the title The love of the actress Sumako ( 女優 須 磨子 の 恋 , Joyū Sumako no Koi ) and shown in Germany in 1982; she was played by Tanaka Kinuyo .

Web links

Commons : Sumako Matsui  - Collection of Images

annotation

  1. ↑ Your exact date of birth is unclear. Brian Powell states December 1886 that 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 July 20th.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 近代 日本人 肖像 松井 須 磨子 . National Parliamentary Library , 2004, accessed August 1, 2012 (Japanese, English translation ).
  2. ↑ 松井 須 磨子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved July 30, 2012 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 2010 松 代 イ ヤ ー 夏 の イ ベ ン ト . In: City of Nagano (ed.): 広 報 な が の . No.  1484 , June 1, 2010, p. 5 ( nagano.jp [PDF]). nagano.jp ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.city.nagano.nagano.jp
  4. ^ A b Brian Powell: Matsui Sumako: Actress and Woman . In: William G. Beasley (Ed.): Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature, and Society . University of California Press, 1977, ISBN 0-520-03495-3 , pp. 135–146 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ a b カ チ ュ ー シ ャ の 歌 . In: kotobank.jp. デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 , accessed August 1, 2012 (Japanese).
  6. ^ Edward Seidensticker: Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake . DS Ellis, 1985, ISBN 0-916870-88-X , pp. 168 .
  7. ↑ 松井 須 磨子 . In: kotobank.jp. 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 , accessed July 30, 2012 (Japanese).
  8. ↑ Beauty and misery of women . In: Der Spiegel . No.  28 , 1982, pp. 134-135 ( online ).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Matsui is the family name, Sumako the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Matsui, sumako
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松井 須 磨子 (Japanese); Kobayashi, Masako (real name); 小 林正子 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiyono , Hanishina-gun (now: Matsushiromachi -Kiyono, Nagano ), Nagano Prefecture , Japan
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1919