Onoe Baikô VI was one of the best onnagata of the Meiji, Taishô and the first years of the Shôwa eras. He costarred stage giants like Onoe Kikugorô V, Kataoka Nizaemon XI, Matsumoto Kôshirô VII or Onoe Kikugorô VI. The duo Onoe Baikô VI-Ichimura Uzaemon XV was extremely popular. He was expected to retire in March 1936 at the Kabukiza, taking the name of Onoe Baiju II and performing in a special program commemorating the 32nd anniversary (33rd memorial service) of the passing away of his adoptive father Onoe Kikugorô V but he died before the event.

"Baikô, following the traditions of the Onoe family, for he was the grandson of the third Kikugorô, and was adopted by the fifth, was clever in the weird, and never pleases so much as when he played an unearthly woman, ghost, or demon. He was particularly successful as a woman of the people, but it was as a dancer that he has endeared himself to all Tôkyô. The grace of his movements, the power of suggestion in his descriptive dances, fill all who witness them with admiration." (Zoë Kincaid in "Kabuki, the Popular Stage of Japan")

The actor Onoe Kikugorô III's haimyô was Baiju and, although he never officially held the name of Onoe Baiju I, he was considered as being Onoe Baiju I. ( kabuki21.com)

In 1899 he was filmed performing the play Hana Kiso Ninin Dojoji (Two people at Dojo Temple) for the short film "KANE KUYO: NININ DOJOJI. " Edit Biography