Actors' Names in the Sawamura family



Individual Actors' Names

This page contains the names of the individual actors in the Sawamura family; to use it, use the exact same system as the base page. For extra utility, the individual name is linked to the page for the actor(s) of that name at the Kabuki 21 website (if one exists).

When the actor's name is now usually written with different (simplified) kanji, they are given in brackets, with those used in the name as shown above them. Again, the names on this page are listed in alphabetical order (for no particularly good reason).

If you cannot find the actor's name here (there are many more Kabuki actors than we have scanned name images for yet), you can try to find it by clicking on the 'Other names' link at the top of the family section. This link takes you to a page on another site which lists, and shows the kanji for, more actors in this family. Many of the images there are very small, but it is currently much more comprehensive.

If you hover your mouse pointer over a signature image, it will show the name of the artist who produced the print which this version of the name is from.


Sawamura family

Other names

Kanji image Kaisho Rōmaji
源之助 Sawamura Gennosuke
宗十郎 Sawamura Sōjūrō
田之助 Sawamura Tanosuke
訥升 Sawamura Tosshō


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