Real name: Okamura Kensuke

Guild: Otowaya

Line number: NIDAIME (II)

Birthday: 28 May 1992

Connections:

great-grandfather: Onoe Kikugorô VI

Grandfather: Kiyomoto Enjudayû VI (music master)

Father: Kiyomoto Enjudayû VII (music master)

Career:

April 2000: first stage appearance, at the Kabukiza, where he plays in the dance "Bukaku Setsugekka".

January 2005: he takes the name of Onoe Ukon II at the Shinbashi Enbujô, playing the role of Ohisa in "Bunshichi Mottoi" and a young bonze in "Yakko Dôjôji".

September 2009: short Kabuki tour in Monaco for the Naritaya guild; Ukon plays the role of a butterfly spirit in the dance-drama "Kagami Jishi" [more details].

January 2010: revival at the National Theatre of Namiki Gohei's long-forgotten drama "Keisei Kogane no Shachihoko", which was revised and entitled "Asahi-ni Kagayaku Kin no Shachihoko"; it was staged to commemorate the 400-year anniversary of the establishment of the city of Nagoya; Ukon plays the roles of Ebisudayû's daughter Omitsu and Ishidani Kachizaemon's son Ishidani Tsukasanosuke [more details | casting].

January 2014: premiere at the National Theatre of "Sanzen Ryô Haru no Komahiki", a revival of Tatsuoka Mansaku's 1794 drama "Keisei Haru no Tori"; Ukon plays the roles of Chôkai's sister Gyokusenjo and Maeda Gentazaemon [more details].

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"; Ukon plays the role of the keisei Onoe [casting | more details].

Comments:

Onoe Ukon II is a young promising actor of the Otowaya guild.

The Onoe Ukon line of actors