Sumako Matsui

. Sumako Matsui (Japanese松井 须 磨子, real name Masako Kobayashi (小 林正子); born November 1, [ Note 1 ] in 1886 Kiyono, Hanishina -gun (now Matsushiromachi - Kiyono, Nagano ), Nagano prefecture, † 5? January. , 1919) was a Japanese actress in the early days of Shingeki (New theater ) and singer.

The youngest daughter of a samurai family came to Tokyo in 1902 to work in the business one of her sisters.

In 1909 she was following the drama group Bungei Kyōkai (Society for Literary Arts), which was led by Tsubouchi Shoyo and Shimamura Hogetsu ( 1871-1918). In 1911 she played in the group, inter alia, Ophelia and William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the title roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Hermann Sudermann home. Because of an affair with Hogetsu she had to leave the band in 1913 and founded this society Geijutsuza, the great success with songs like The resurrection had ( after the novel by Leo Tolstoy ) and Oscar Wilde's Salome. The of her sung in The Resurrection song Katyusha no Uta (カチューシャ の 歌, Kachūsha no Uta ), composed by Nakayama Shinpei, in 1914 a nationwide hit and is considered one of the first pieces of Japanese pop music that would later be called Ryūkōka.

After Hogetsu had died suddenly in November 1918 of the Spanish flu, Matsui committed suicide two months later, suicide by hanging.

Her life was in 1947 by Kenji Mizoguchi under the title Love the actress Sumako (女優 須磨子 の 恋, joyu Sumako no Koi ) filmed and shown in 1982 in Germany; she was played by Tanaka Kinuyo.