Stage names:

Arashi Yoshisaburô VI
Arashi Yoshio
Arashi Ichitarô IV

Real name: Terada Toshiaki

Guild: Teshimaya

Line number: ROKUDAIME (VI)

Poetry name: Kitsujô

Existence: 22 August 1935 ~ 22 August 1996

Connection:

Grandfather: Arashi Yoshisaburô IV

Father: Arashi Yoshisaburô V

Father-in-law: Kawarasaki Kunitarô V

Brother: Arashi Keishi

Sons: Kawarasaki Kunitarô VI, Arashi Yoshisaburô VII

Career:

November 1939: first stage appearance, at the Asakusa Kokusai Gekijô, where he received the name of Arashi Ichitarô IV and played the role of the bonze Otobô in the drama "Osowareta Machi".

March 1951: Ichitarô joined the Zenshinza troupe.

June 1955: Arashi Ichitarô IV took the name of Arashi Yoshio at the Ôsaka Kabukiza (Ôsaka), playing the roles of Ôishi Chikara, a machi musume and the courtesan Ofusa in "Jitsuroku Chûshingura", "Osome no Nanayaku" and "Godairiki Koi no Fûjime".

December 1957: Yoshio became an official member of the Zenshinza troupe.

14 November 1977: his father Arashi Yoshisaburô V died.

December 1978: Arashi Yoshio took the name of Arashi Yoshisaburô VI at the Shinbashi Enbujô, playing the roles of Nakayama Kichisaburô, Okame and Yagorô in "Maiôgi Bojô" and "Ehon Gappô-ga-Tsuji" (2 roles).

22 August 1996: Yoshisaburô died.

Comments:

Arashi Yoshisaburô VI was a talented onnagata and nimaime actor belonging to the second generations of actors who built the Zenshinza troupe.

Arashi Yoshisaburô VI's atariyaku: Princess Taema ("Narukami"), Chidori ("Shunkan"), Okichi/Kasane ("Gedatsu no Kinu Momiji Kasane"), the koshimoto Makiginu ("Kenuki"), Togashi/Yoshitsune ("Kanjinchô") and Tokusaburô ("Tônasuya").

Arashi Yoshisaburô VI (right) playing the role of Kasane in the drama "Gedatsu no Koromo Momiji Kasane"

The Arashi Yoshisaburô line of actors