, also written Nami-ko Hatsuse and Hatsuse Namiko, was the stage name of a Japanese actress, born Hideko Iwao.
Early life and education Hideko Iwao was born in Tokyo, the daughter of Tosui Iwao.Shunjiro Kurita, Who's Who in Japan 1913 (1913): 148. via Archive.org As Namiko Hatsuse, she was one of the first graduates of Kawakami Sadayakko's Actress Training Institute.M. Tian, Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced (Springer 2012).
Career Hatsuse specialized shingeki style acting in modern and Western dramas on the Tokyo stage. She was part of the Imperial Theatre Troupe.Adachi Kinnosuke, "The West Enters Japan's Stage" New York Times (December 26, 1926): SM15. Her roles included one of the sisters in Maurice Maeterlinck's The Death of Tintagiles (1912),Z. Kincaid, "Leading Actresses of Japan" Theatre Magazine (July 1914): 31. the young wife in Bjornstjerne Bjornson's The Newly Married Couple,James R. Brandon, "Kabuki and Shakespeare: Balancing Yin and Yang" TDR 43(2)(Summer 1999): 35. and Karaginu in The Treachery of Terutora (1913).George Washington Brown, "Music in the Orient" The National Magazine (February 1914): 954. She played the koto in character in The Treachery of Terutora.Walter S. McBride, "Japan and Modern Drama" Overland Monthly (April 1914): 335. She was also recognized for roles in Shakespeare adaptations,"Shakespeare in Japanese Theatres" Oakland Tribune (July 1, 1914): 10. via Newspapers.com including Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor."Pretty Japanese Girls Winning Honors on the Stage" Buffalo Sunday Morning News (July 13, 1913): 14. via Newspapers.com"Green Room Gossip" Punch (October 3, 1912): 38. via Trove She also appeared in the film A Woman's Sorrows (1937) directed by Mikio Naruse.Les Larmes d'une femme (1937, dir. Mikio Naruse), at Allocine.
Personal life Namiko Hatsuse died in 1951, aged 62 years.
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