Study Magazine on Instagram: "For this 14th issue of Study, we looked at the world of Sennosuke Kataoka, a twenty-six years old kabuki actor carrying on his shoulders the weight of a formidable lineage as the heir to a long line of performers. Sennosuke approaches kabuki with restlessness, he unsettles its fixed rhythm and loosens the strict seasonality that once dictated when and how a performer appears on stage. He accepts Western roles without hesitation (this autumn he stepped into the title role of Hamlet by William Shakespeare) and moves between languages, forms, and audiences with a natural ease. In the fall, during performances of Fuji Musume, two photographers followed him closely. Kotori Kawashima spent two days immersed in the private hours of rehearsal, where the art is still uncertain and searching for its final shape. Then Mayumi Hosokura entered during dress rehearsals and the charged intensity of live performance and the privacy of the dressing room. What emerges from these parallel portfolios is an unfiltered portrait: not the polished icon of a classical art form, but a young artist in motion, passionate, disciplined and sometimes solitary. His ambition is clear : to carry kabuki into the twenty-first century. To let it travel beyond the borders of Japan. To prove that tradition, when held with intelligence and courage, can become something fiercely contemporary. Sennosuke Kataoka photographed by @kotori_kawashima"

study.magazine on March 16, 2026: "For this 14th issue of Study, we looked at the world of Sennosuke Kataoka, a twenty-six years old kabuki actor carrying on his shoulders the weight of a formidable lineage as the heir to a long line of performers. Sennosuke approaches kabuki with restlessness, he…