渡辺 保（watanabe tamotsu）- 歌舞伎研究、批評家

渡辺保（わたなべ たもつ、1936–）は、東京都出身の演劇評論家、歌舞伎研究者。慶應義塾大学経済学部を卒業後、東宝演劇部に勤務し、1965年に『歌舞伎に女優を』で評論活動を始めた。歌舞伎を中心に、能、文楽、現代演劇まで幅広く論じ、舞台上の身体表現や俳優の芸を歴史のなかに位置づけてきた。『娘道成寺』と『黙阿弥の明治維新』で読売文学賞を受賞し、2017年に日本芸術院賞・恩賜賞、2024年に文化功労者に選ばれた。代表作『女形の運命』は芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞受賞作で、戦後歌舞伎を代表する六代目中村歌右衛門の演技と生涯をたどりながら、近代社会において男性俳優が女性を演じる女形という存在が背負った孤独と、その芸が生み出す美を論じた。

Tamotsu Watanabe (born 1936) is a Japanese theater critic and Kabuki scholar from Tokyo. After graduating from Keio University with a degree in economics, he worked in Toho’s theatrical division and began his career as a critic in 1965 with “Kabuki ni Joyu o.” His criticism ranges from Kabuki to Noh, Bunraku, and modern theater, placing actors’ physical expression and performance styles within their historical settings. He received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for both “Musume Dojoji” and “Mokuami no Meiji Ishin,” the Japan Art Academy Prize and Imperial Prize in 2017, and was named a Person of Cultural Merit in 2024. His representative work, “Onnagata no Unmei,” which received the Minister of Education’s Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists, examines the performances and life of Nakamura Utaemon VI to explain the solitude borne by the male actor who embodies women onstage and the distinctive beauty created through that art.

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