ARASHI WAKANO
   
TWO GENERATIONS
Arashi Wakano I
 

The actor Arashi Wakano I held this name from before 1721 to the 5th lunar month of 1728.

The Actors Ichikawa Monnosuke I (bottom/right) as Kusunoki Masatsura and Arashi Wakano I (top/left) as Oyuki in the play "Hônen Taiheiki," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the eleventh month, 1722
Artist: Okumura Toshinobu
Date: 1723
The Art Institute of Chicago (print in the public domain)

Arashi Wakano II
 

The actor Arashi Wakano II held this name from the 11th lunar month of 1730 to the 2nd lunar month of 1763 [1].

The Kabuki actor Arashi Wakano II as Ono no Komachi dancing with a fan
(print made by Torii Kiyomasu II)
Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum

 

Notes

[1] Arashi Wakano II most likely held a Sadoshima name for a few years from the second half of the 1730s to the 1740s.

 
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