Kayoko Kumono

Kayoko Kumono (1908 - 1991) (雲野かよ子 in Japanese, or くもの かよこ in kana) was the former Takarazuka Girls' Revue Company. She was born in Kanda-ku, Tokyo (now Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). Her nickname was Hana-chan. Her stage name, along with her older sister, came from a poem by Henjō included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Otome Amatsu who served as the top star and director of the Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe, is her older sister. She also had a younger sister, Tsuruko Ikebe.

Life Kayoko was born in 1908 as the younger sister of Otome Amatsu. At that time, the school and the theater company were one, and admission was equal to joining the company. In 1924, Kayoko played Tsuruchiyo, the young prince of the Oshu Date family in Masaoka no Tsubone. Kayoko was in Shanghai during the war and withdrew from Shanghai to Japan after the war as a repatriate. After Kayoko returned to Japan, she worked as a teacher at Takarazuka Music School. The Tezuka Osamu family lived next door to Kayoko's parents' house.