Tamao Yoshida

Yoshida Tamao (Japanese吉田 玉 男, actually: Sueichi Ueda (上 田 末 一), born January 7, 1919 in Osaka, † 24 September 2006) was a Japanese Bunraku puppet master.

Career

He began in 1933 with fourteen years in Yoshida Tamajirō with training to puppeteer and adopted the stage name Yoshida Tamao. From 1934 he appeared in a Bunraku Theater in Osaka. 1940-1944 he did his military service. In 1946 he takes the puppet again as a senior puppeteer. In 1962, he performed for the first time overseas at the World Exhibition in Seattle, and in 2002 the first time in Europe.

In 1955 he appears as Tokubei in the resumption of Sonezaki Shinju ( " double suicide in Sonezaki " ) that his signature role, which he to 1111 times aufführte. , 2002.

He received high Japanese Awards: 1977 Living National Treasure ( ningen kokuhō ), 1978 Order of Merit on the Purple tape, 1989 Order of the Rising Sun ( gold rays with rosette ), 1997 Asahi Prize, 2000 person with special cultural merits and 2003 Kyoto Prize.

1985 and 1995 he was awarded the fourth and fourteenth National Bunraku price.