List of Famous people with last name Okuni

Izumo no Okuni

First Name Izumo

Last Name Okuni

Born on January 1, 1572 (age 454)

Okuni was a Japanese shrine maiden who is believed to have invented the theatrical art form of kabuki. She is thought to have begun performing her new art style of "kabuki" theatre in the dry riverbed of the Kamo River in Kyoto. Okuni's troupe quickly gained immense popularity, and were known for their performers, who were often lower-class women Okuni had recruited to act in her all-female theater group.

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Tomimaru Okuni

First Name Tomimaru

Born on January 1, 1931 (age 95)

Born in Japan, Yamagata Prefecture

Tomimaru Okuni is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets at the Nanyo Observatory, Yamagata prefecture, Japan.

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