Teshima Michiharu (豊嶋三千春)

Michiharu TESHIMA (September 15, 1939 -) is a Noh actor of the Kongo school of shite-kata (lead actors). He lives in Kyoto City.

He was born in Kyoto as the eldest son of Yazaemon TESHIMA (Living National Treasure). He was apprenticed to his father. He made his debut as a player of a child's part in "Mii dera" (The Mii-dera Temple) at the age of five in 1945. He was apprenticed to Iwao KONGO, the head of the Kongo school. He received the Excellence Award of Arts Festival in 1975. He was designated as the holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property of Noh Play. In 2006, he received the Grand Prize (personal award) of Arts Festival by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Kunzo TESHIMA is his maternal half-brother.

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