Ichikawa Somegoro to Kabuki wo Miyo (Shin Ban Nihon no Dento Geino wa Omoshiroi)

[Machine Translation] Born the only boy in a family of kabuki players for generations, the boy loved baseball so much that he wanted to become a professional baseball player. There was one more thing the boy loved. He also loved one other thing: the world of acting. His parents never told him to become an actor, but from an early age he loved the sound of the tsuzumi drum and shamisen, dancing, and the backstage area of the theater. I grew up in such an environment and found myself becoming a kabuki actor who loved kabuki. The "play-acting" of my childhood was the starting point of Kabuki - from here, he takes us into the world of Kabuki.

代々の歌舞伎の家に、たった一人の男の子として生まれた少年は、プロ野球の選手になりたいと思うほど野球が好きでした。少年が好きなものは、もう一つありました。それはお芝居の世界。両親は「役者になるように」とは一言も言いませんでしたが、幼い頃から鼓や三味線の音が好きで、踊りが好きで、劇場の楽屋が大好きでした。そんな環境で成長し、気がついたときには、歌舞伎が好きな歌舞伎役者になっていました。子ども時代の「お芝居ごっこ」が歌舞伎の原点―ここから、歌舞伎の世界に案内してくれます。