Yukiko Tsukuba
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| birth_name = Yukiko Sato
| birth_date = June 10, 1906
| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan
| death_date = June 1977 (age 70)
| death_place = Setagaya, Japan
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| occupation = Actress
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| spouse(s) = Jinkichi Terada
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Yukiko Tsukuba (June 10, 1906 – early June 1977; in Japanese: 筑波雪子 , or kana: つくば ゆきこ ) was a Japanese actress on stage, in silent films, and in early sound films. She was also the All-Japan women's billiards champion in 1929.
Early life
Tsukuba was born in Tokyo. She trained as a geisha, and became an internationally publicized beauty{{Cite news |last=Underwood & Underwood |date=May 23, 1926 |title=Miss Yukiko Tsukuba |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-miss-yukiko-tsukuba/159795641/ |work=The Pittsburgh Press |pages=106 |via=Newspapers.com}} and film star{{Cite book |last=Fujiki |first=Hideaki |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_gFEAAAQBAJ&dq=Tsukuba+Yukiko&pg=PA7 |title=Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan |date=2020-10-26 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-1-68417-063-0 |page=7 |language=en}} while she was still in her teens.{{Cite journal |last=Sheba |first=Kimpei |date=May 1926 |title=The Motion Picture in Japan |url=https://archive.org/details/motion1724moti/page/n743/mode/2up?q=%22Yukiko+Tsukuba%22 |journal=Motion Picture Classic |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=35 |via=Internet Archive}}
Career
File:Yukiko Tsukuba in Minzoku no sakebi, 1928.jpg
Tsukuba began her screen career at the Shochiku studio. She worked with directors including Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinobu Ikeda, Heinosuke Gosho,{{Cite book |last=Nolletti |first=Arthur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51zxglZZLOwC&dq=Tsukuba+Yukiko&pg=PA285 |title=The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears |date=2005 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-34484-7 |page=285|language=en}} Kiyohiko Ushihara, Buntaro Futagawa, Torajiro Saito, and Mikio Naruse.{{Cite book |last=Russell |first=Catherine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vpDcuY4GCwC&dq=Tsukuba+Yukiko&pg=PA55 |title=The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity |date=2008-09-08 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-8868-5 |page=56|language=en}} She was dubbed "the Mary Pickford of Japan" in a 1926 American newspaper.{{Cite news |date=October 31, 1926 |title=The Mary Pickford of Japan |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-the-mary-pickford-o/159796077/ |work=The Kansas City Star |pages=87 |via=Newspapers.com}}
With actor Tsuzuya Moroguchi, Tsukuba started a short-lived production company, in 1927.{{Cite news |date=July 5, 1927 |title=Japanese Girls for 'Movies' |url=https://archive.org/details/NPDP19270705/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22Yukiko+Tsukuba%22 |work=Hong Kong Daily Press |pages=7 |via=Internet Archive}} In 1929, she won the All-Japan Women's Billiards championship.{{Cite news |date=March 30, 1929 |title=A Champion |url=https://archive.org/details/per_st-louis-post-dispatch_1929-03-30_81_205/page/n13/mode/2up?q=%22Yukiko+Tsukuba%22 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |pages=15 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite news |date=May 2, 1929 |title=Beauty and her Cue |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/liverpool-echo-beauty-and-her-cue/159795853/ |work=Liverpool Echo |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Selected filmography
- Otoro-gokoro (1925, A Man's Heart)
- Junanbana (1926, The Second Kiss)J. N. P., [https://books.google.com/books?id=xkFymyUf8GIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Tsukuba%20Yukiko&pg=PP442#v=onepage&q=Tsukuba%20Yukiko&f=false "In the Kingdom of the Silver Screen"] Japan: Overseas Travel Magazine 15(9)(September 1926): 14-15.
- Nasanu naka (1932, No Blood Relation){{Cite web |last=Blakeslee |first=David |date=2012-08-28 |title=A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Mikio Naruse's No Blood Relation |url=https://criterioncast.com/column/a-journey-through-the-eclipse-series-mikio-naruses-no-blood-relation |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=CriterionCast |language=en-US}}
Personal life
Tsukuba married businessman and politician {{Interlanguage link|寺田甚吉|lt=Jinkichi Terada|ja|寺田甚吉}} in 1942. Her husband died in 1976, and she died in 1977, from stomach cancer, at the age of 70, in Setagaya.
References
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External links
- {{IMDB name|1656100}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QhePUpsFiM 生さぬ仲 / Not Blood Relations (1932)], full film, colorized, on YouTube
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