Yuzuru Kume

Born in 1899 — the last year of the nineteenth century — Yuzuru Kume lived through the entire sweep of Taisho modernism and the convulsive early Showa era before passing away in 1945, just as the war was ending. He started as a child actor and eventually moved into kabuki, which is a fascinating path for a Tokyo kid; it speaks to how porous the performing arts world could be back then, before everything got neatly siloed. I honestly don't know much about the specific roles he played, and the historical record is thin, but that's kind of the point — so many artists of his generation did the quiet, grinding work of keeping Japanese stage culture alive through poverty and wartime censorship and worse, and their names barely made it to us. He didn't get to see the peace. That stings a little.

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Yuzuru Kume (久米譲) was a Japanese actor born on November 29, 1899, in Tokyo, Japan. He worked across multiple performance disciplines, beginning as a child actor and also establishing himself as a kabuki actor. He passed away in 1945, the final year of World War II. Detailed records of his career and personal life remain largely unavailable.

Name (English)

Yuzuru Kume

Name (Japanese)

久米譲

Reading

くめ ゆずる

Born

November 29, 1899 – 1945

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Actor / Child Actor / Kabuki Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%85%E7%B1%B3%E8%AD%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11369637

Tags

• Tokyo
• Actor
• Child Actor
• Kabuki Actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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