Tomoda Kyōsuke

Kyōsuke Tomoda

Tomoda Kyōsuke ( Japanese 友 田 恭 助 , real name: Tomoda Gorō , ( 友 田 五郎 ); born October 30, 1899 in Nihombashi , Tokyo ; † October 6, 1937 , Wusong, Shanghai ) was a Japanese actor .

Tomoda studied together with his wife Tamura Akiko at the drama school of Kishida Kunio . Both were engaged at the Shingeki Theater Tsukiji Shōgekijō ( 築 地 小 劇場 ) until it closed . In 1932 they founded the Tsukiji-za Theater , which Sugimura Haruko and later Higashiyama Chieko also joined. The project was supported by Kishida, Shishi Bunroku and Kubota Mantarō . Works by all three authors were premiered here. By the time it was dissolved in 1936, Tsukiji-za had staged nearly thirty productions, including pieces by Oyama Yūshi , Tanaka Chikao and Morimoto Kaoru . Tomoda fell in China in 1937 in the Sino-Japanese War .

Web links

Commons : Tomoda Kyōsuke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jonah Salz: "A History of Japanese Theater" , Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 9781316395325

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 友 田 恭 助 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved December 23, 2016 (Japanese). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Tomoda is the family name, Kyōsuke the first name.