Sugi Kuhee

• Japanese: 杉九兵衛 (Sugi Kuhee / Sugi Kuhei)

Sugi Kuhee was a Kamigata kabuki actor of the Genroku period, specializing in playing the roles of older women (such an actor was called a kashagata). He is known as one of the chief authors of the Yakusha rongo ("Actors' Analects"), and as one of the teachers of Sakata Tôjûrô I.

References

• Dunn, Charles and Torigoe Bunzô (1969). The Actors' Analects. New York: Columbia University Press, 29.
• "Kashagata," Kabuki Glossary, Kabuki21.com.