Onoe Kikunosuke V, born August 1, 1977 as Terashima Kazuyasu, is a Kabuki and film actor. Kazuyasu came from an established Kabuki house. He is the second child of Onoe Kikugoro VII and actress Fuji Sumiko, and his older sister is actress Terajima Shinobu.

Kazuyasu made his Kabuki debut in February 1984 at the Kabuki-za, where he received the name of Onoe Ushinosuke VI and performed in "Ehon Ushiwakamaru". He inherited the current title, Onoe Kikunosuke V, from his father in May 1996 at the Kabuki-za, playing the roles of Yayoi and Benten Kozo Kikunosuke in the dance "Kagami Jishi" and the drama "Shiranami Gonin Otoko".

Kikunosuke V’s virtuoso performance in Ninagawa Yukio’s Kabuki adaptation of "Twelfth Night" in 2005 earned him multiple awards, including the Yomiuri Theatre Awards’ Sugimura Haruko Prize, the Asahi Performing Arts Awards’ Terayama Shuji Prize, and the Education and Culture Minister’s Arts Encouragement Prize for New Artists.

In recent years, he has played an ambitious range of parts spanning both period pieces and domestic dramas, from some of Kabuki’s most iconic female roles (Masaoka in Meiboku Sendai Hagi, Tamate Gozen in Sesshu Gappo ga Tsuji, Yatsuhashi in Kagotsurube) to dance pieces (Kyokanoko Musume Dojoji, Shunkyo Kagami Jishi) to major male roles like the title characters in Sakanaya Somegoro, Kamiyui Shinzo and Ichijo Okura Monogatari and Tomomori in Yoshitsune Senbonzakura. He also originated the central role in an epic new Kabuki piece entitled Mahābārata Senki (The War Chronicles of the Mahābhārata) based on the classic Indian tale at the Kabukiza in 2017.

Onoe Kikunosuke V is married to Namino Yoko, the fourth daughter of Nakamura Kichiemon II, since February 2013. The couple has three children. The eldest son, Terashima Kaufumi, followed the family tradition, making his Kabuki debut under the name Onoe Ushinosuke VII in May 2019. Edit Biography