Stage names:

Nakamura Kamenojô III
Nakamura Komaji III

Real name: Kobayashi Hironobu

Guild: Narikomaya

Line number: SANDAIME (III) ^[1]

Birthday: 13 November 1955

Connections:

Master: Nakamura Utaemon VI

Career:

1974: he graduates from the Actors Training Center of the National Theatre (second graduation).

April 1974: debut on stage (hatsubutai) at the National Theatre, where he plays a koshimoto role in the drama "Imoseyama Onna Teikin".

May 1975: he becomes disciple of Nakamura Utaemon VI and receives the name of Nakamura Komaji III at the Kabukiza and performing in the drama "Kurumabiki".

February ~ March 1978: Komaji takes part in the Kabuki tour in Australia.

June ~ July 1982: Komaji takes part in the Kabuki tour in the USA.

November 1983: he celebrates his success at the nadai exam by taking the name of Nakamura Kamenojô III at the Kabukiza, performing in the dramas "Kamakura Sandaiki" and "Ippon Gatana Dohyô Iri".

June 1987: Kamenojô takes part in the Kabuki tour in the Soviet Union.

July ~ August 1988: Kamenojô takes part in the Kabuki tour in Australia.

October 1990: Kamenojô takes part in the Kabuki tour in Europe (Paris, Frankfurt).

31 March 2001: his master Nakamura Utaemon VI dies.

April 2014: he joins the first league of Kabuki actors (kanbu shôshin); he plays at the Kabukiza the roles of Tôzaburô's wife Okuru and Kageyu's wife Naruse in the dramas "Kamakura Sandaiki" and "Ichijô Ôkura Monogatari".

Comments:

Nakamura Kamenojô III is a supporting onnagata actor of the Narikomaya guild.

[1] Recorded as Nakamura Kamenojô IV in the latest edition (2012) of "Kabuki Haiyû Meiseki Benran".

Nakamura Kamenojô III
Courtesy of DANGO JIRÛ HYPER
This image was part of an amazing 2010 web project, which was entitled Kabuki Bijin Tokei (The Kabuki Beautiful People Clock), a special countdown with original pictures of Kabuki actors, one picture per day up to the closing of the Kabukiza (video on youtube)
Nakamura Kamenojô III was Number 35 in this countdown (online the 27th of March 2010, 35 days to go before the closing of Tôkyô's most famous theater)

The Nakamura Kamenojô line of actors