<p>Ukon Onoe (31) attracted a great deal of attention with his innovative costumes and daring performance in the new kabuki play &#8220;Tsuki no Tsurugi Neshinokirinoha&#8221; staged at the Shinbashi Enbujo Theater in Tokyo in July 2011. The &#8220;prince of the Kabuki world,&#8221; who continues to make great strides, was secretly living with an &#8220;older woman. The following is a look back at the details based on an article we published on January 12, 2012.</p>
<figure id="attachment_369401" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-369401" style="width: 2300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="5882f96e"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/04/e8ea2f495d3798667430fb19064b1e77.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-369401" class="wp-caption-text"> Ukon and his girlfriend walking arm in arm. She was as beautiful as Ukon, both standing and walking.</figcaption></figure>
<p> In mid-December 2011, a handsome man dressed all in black, from cap to sneakers, was slowly walking down the slope of Meguro Street, which extends gently from Meguro Station.</p>
<p> Beside the man was a slender, beautiful woman stylishly dressed in a long navy blue down coat and knee-high boots. Her back was straight and her eyes reminded me somewhat of actress Mayuko Kawakita (32).</p>
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<p> After walking shoulder to shoulder for a while, the woman suddenly took the man&#8217;s arm and intertwined her fingers with his. The two were then sucked into &#8220;T,&#8221; a restaurant with a long line of customers.</p>
<p> This man in black is Ukon Onoe, the prince of the Kabuki world.</p>
<p> His great-grandfather was Onoe Kikugoro VI, who led the Kabuki world in the Taisho era (1912-1926), and his grandfather was Tsuruta Koji, a famous actor of the Showa era. In 2006, at the tender age of 25, he starred in a double cast with Ennosuke Ichikawa (48) in &#8220;Super Kabuki One Piece,&#8221; and is attracting attention as a young hope in the Kabuki world.</p>
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<p> After about an hour, they came out of the &#8220;T&#8221; and headed home by train from Meguro Station. When they got off at the nearest station, they again took each other&#8217;s hands and intertwined their fingers, and while waiting at a traffic light, they looked into the show windows of a shopping mall painted in bright red.</p>
<p> When they came to an alley, they broke their hands and immediately moved away from each other. The woman entered the modern-looking apartment building with a familiar hand, and Ukon entered the same apartment building, taking his time and paying attention to his surroundings.</p>
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<h2>Introductions to parents are on the way.&#8221;</h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"><span class="strong-in-content"> Despite his neat looks, Ukon once cobbled together that he was &#8220;unattractive. When he was a student at Horikoshi High School, he had a crush on Mayuko Kawakita, a classmate of his, and was rejected (laugh). Even after he became a popular actor, his older brother Matsuya Onoe (39) told him that he was &#8216;too much of a motherfucker to be popular.</span></span></p>
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<p> Three days after their tonkatsu date, there was a scene in which Ukon, on his way out to the Shinbashi Enbujo, looked back at his apartment and waved to the floor above. At the corner of his eye, a beautiful woman resembling Kawakita, who had been intertwining her fingers with Ukon, appeared from the balcony and saw him off.</p>
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<p> Thereafter, he ran into the beauty several times in the vicinity of the apartment, but she would return to her room as a matter of course, even when Ukon was not there. The days of being &#8220;unattractive&#8221; seemed to have come to an end. In early January of 2012, after a performance at the Hatsuharu Grand Kabuki Theater, we directly interviewed Ukon.</p>
<p> &#8211;He said, &#8220;I heard that you are currently living with a woman.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"><span class="strong-in-content"> Yes. &#8230;&#8230;, yes.</span></span></p>
<p> &#8211;Is he thinking of getting married?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"><span class="strong-in-content"> I can&#8217;t tell you any more than that, because there is nothing I can disclose right now. Of course, there is no such thing as &#8216;I am actually married. If I were to get married, I would want to talk to the Kabuki world, my clients, the people involved, and my teachers, and then report it to the public.</span></span></p>
<p> &#8211;Have you introduced him to your family yet?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"><span class="strong-in-content"> No, I haven&#8217;t yet, so that will come in the near future.</span></span></p>
<p> &#8211;Is your partner the same age as you?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"><span class="strong-in-content"> Is he the same age as you? I consider it my job to be featured in this way. But she is just an ordinary person, so I think she should be left alone.</span></span></p>
<p> After saying these words softly, Ukon left the room, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.</p>
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<h3>The rootless look suits me.&#8221;</h3>
<p> Ukon has made no mention of women since then, but a source close to the pears garden said, &#8220;Ukon has always wanted to get married since he was young,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ukon has always wanted to get married since he was young, and he once said, &#8216;I started thinking about it when I was in my mid-twenties. Naturally, a wife must have an understanding of the arts in order to be a wife in the Rien family.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The woman he is dating is an ordinary person, but even looking at her picture, I can tell that she has a very sophisticated atmosphere. There is an atmosphere that she is doing something artistic. I think she also has a good understanding of Ukon&#8217;s work.</span></p>
<p> He was favorable.</p>
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<p> This year, from January to June, Ukon will continue to appear on stage without a break. In an interview with &#8220;Toyo Keizai ONLINE&#8221; published on April 13, he talked about his view of his work as a Kabuki actor and Kiyomoto, who continues to perform on stage,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In an interview with &#8220;Toyo Keizai ONLINE&#8221; published on April 13, he said, &#8220;I am a Kabuki actor and a Kiyomoto, but I don&#8217;t want to be pigeonholed as someone in this category. I don&#8217;t want to put down roots. I don&#8217;t want to be rootless. Rootless people are the kind of people who arrive at a place where they belong, and they grow there, but then they fly away again and end up somewhere else (see &#8230;&#8230;). It&#8217;s like that every time, and it suits me.</span></p>
<p> He said, &#8220;It&#8217;s like that every time, it works for me. It seems that a woman who becomes Ukon&#8217;s wife will have to be very prepared.</p>
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<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Ukon Onoe and his live-in girlfriend on a date and direct photos"></div>
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<figure id="attachment_353384" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-353384" style="width: 1483px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a680b0bb"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/deb815ad4628f041876bfd9400b58f21.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-353384" class="wp-caption-text"> Ukon Onoe, prince of the Kabuki world, is &#8220;semi-living together&#8221; with his older girlfriend</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_353382" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-353382" style="width: 1554px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="cd362712"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/d7ac7717ac12f26a28c756a1128ec068.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-353382" class="wp-caption-text"> Ukon Onoe, the prince of the Kabuki world, is &#8220;living together&#8221; with his older lover.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_353387" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-353387" style="width: 1518px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="fc1d4476"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/7425b0cbf47ebad96518dbb4ebb557cc.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-353387" class="wp-caption-text"> Ukon Onoe, the prince of Kabuki, is &#8220;living together&#8221; with his older girlfriend.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_353386" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-353386" style="width: 1202px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="92184b96"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/03862e808760c47b1054c867db700def.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-353386" class="wp-caption-text"> Ukon Onoe, the prince of the Kabuki world, is &#8220;living together halfway&#8221; with his older lover.</figcaption></figure>


 Keisuke Nishi

 The "prince of the Kabuki world," Ukon Onoe, has been living together with an older woman, and expectations of marriage are high among people in the Nashien circle. However, he has recently described himself as "rootless. It seems that a woman to be married to would be quite a challenge.

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