Yukiji Asaoka

Yukiji Asaoka's resume reads like a map of postwar Japanese entertainment. The daughter of the shin-hanga painter Shinsui Ito, she joined the Takarazuka Revue's Moon Troupe as a teenager in 1952, then went on to work as a singer, actress, voice actor and television personality. Her second husband was the actor Masahiko Tsugawa. The Order of the Rising Sun she received says something about how long the industry kept trusting her. She died in 2018 at eighty-two. What strikes me is the sheer breadth of it. Most performers spend a lifetime perfecting a single lane; she kept opening new ones and stayed credible in all of them.

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Name (English)

Yukiji Asaoka

Name (Japanese)

朝丘雪路

Reading

あさおか ゆきじ

Born

July 23, 1935 – April 27, 2018

Origin

Chūō, Tokyo, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / seiyū / tarento / recording artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

Blood type

B

Active years

1952 - 2014

Awards & achievements

• The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette

Spouse

津川雅彦

Works summary

Appearances

268 (1955–2016)

By year

1955: 1, 1956: 1, 1957: 2, 1958: 1, 1959: 1, 1960: 4, 1961: 2, 1962: 5, 1963: 2, 1964: 2, 1965: 2, 1966: 9, 1967: 8, 1968: 7, 1969: 3, 1970: 5, 1971: 6, 1972: 4, 1973: 6, 1974: 5, 1975: 7, 1976: 4, 1977: 3, 1978: 7, 1979: 2, 1980: 2, 1981: 1, 1982: 7, 1983: 11, 1984: 5, 1985: 4, 1986: 4, 1988: 2, 1989: 3, 1990: 4, 1991: 1, 1992: 6, 1993: 3, 1994: 2, 1995: 2, 1996: 5, 1997: 3, 1999: 4, 2000: 2, 2001: 1, 2002: 3, 2003: 6, 2004: 3, 2005: 4, 2006: 4, 2007: 2, 2008: 3, 2009: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2016: 1

Debut work

ジャズ娘乾杯

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://morning-hill.jugem.jp
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukiji%20Asaoka
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%9D%E4%B8%98%E9%9B%AA%E8%B7%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3544112

Tags

• Tokyo
• actor
• singer
• seiyū

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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