Stage name:

Onoe Maholo

Real name: Terajima Maholo

Guild: Otowaya

Birthday: 11 September 2012

Connections:

Great-grandfather: Onoe Baikô VII

Grandfather: Onoe Kikugorô VII

Career:

11 September 2012: born in Tôkyô. Son of the actress Terajima Shinobu and the Art Director Laurent Ghnassia.

May 2017: first stage appearance (omemie), in Tôkyô at the Kabukiza, where he played the role of the decchi Yokichi in the drama "Sakanaya Sôgorô" ^[1]; the role of the sakanaya Sôgorô was played by Maholo's grandfather Onoe Kikugorô VII.

May 2018: Maholo played at the Kabukiza the role of the decchi Chômatsu in the drama "Benten Musume Meo no Shiranami".

January 2019: revival at the National Theatre of Namiki Gohei I's 1779 drama "Sode Nikki Banshû Meguri"; this Otowaya-powered revision was entitled "Himeji-jô Oto-ni Kiku Sono Ishizue"; Maholo played the role of Kojorô's son Fukuju [casting | more details].

March 2019: Maholo played at the Kabukiza the role of Moritsuna's son Kosaburô in the drama "Moritsuna Jin'ya"; the role of Sasaki Moritsuna was played by Kataoka Nizaemon XV.

April 2019: Maholo played at the Kabukiza the role of Tarokichi in the drama "Sanemori Monogatari"; the role of Saitô Bettô Sanemori was played by Kataoka Nizaemon XV.

May 2021: Maholo played at the Kabukiza the role of the sword-holder Otowaka in the dance-drama "Tsuchi-gumo".

March 2022: Maholo played at the Kabukiza the role of the decchi Chôkichi in the drama "Shibahama no Kawazaifu".

May 2023: debut on stage (hatsubutai) at the Kabukiza, where he received the name of Onoe Maholo and played the role of Iwami Jûtarô in "Oto-ni Kiku Makoto no Wakamusha".

Comments:

Onoe Maholo is a young actor of the Otowaya guild. He is the second Kabuki actor in Kabuki history to have roots in Japan and France. The first one was the stage giant Ichimura Uzaemon XV, whose father was also a Frenchman.

[1] This drama was staged within a special program celebrating an important 3-generation shûmei for the Bandô branch of the Otowaya guild: Bandô Hikosaburô VIII, his two sons Bandô Kamesaburô V and Bandô Kametoshi respectively took the names of Bandô Rakuzen, Bandô Hikosaburô IX and Bandô Kamezô III. Bandô Kamesaburô's son Bandô Yûta made also his hatsubutai and received the name of Bandô Kamesaburô VI. Moreover, the 22nd and 16th anniversaries (23rd and 17th memorial services) of the passing away of Maholo's great-grandfather Onoe Baikô VII and Ichimura Uzaemon XVII were commemorated.