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Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku dies

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2009 file photo taken during a performance in Kyoto shows Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku (L), who was designated as a Japanese living national treasure. He died at age 93 on May 23, 2013, of lung cancer at his home in Kyoto. At center is his son Shigeyama Sengoro and at right are Sensaku's twin great-grandsons Toramasa (far R) and Tatsumasa.

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Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku dies

TOKYO, Japan - A 2007 file photo shows Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku, designated as a Japanese living national treasure, who died on May 23, 2013, of lung cancer at his home in Kyoto. He was 93.

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Shigeyama Sensaku

Shigeyama Sensaku, Noh farce (Kyogen) actor (photo taken on Nov. 3, 2007)

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Kyogen actor Shigeyama, 4 others receive top culture awards

TOKYO, Japan - Five recipients of the Order of Culture pose for a photo with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (3rd from L) at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 3. (From L to R) are sculptor Shinya Nakamura, Akira Mikazuki, professor emeritus in judicial studies at the University of Tokyo, Fukuda, Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku, Koji Nakanishi, professor emeritus in organic chemistry at Columbia University, and Tokindo Okada, professor emeritus in development biology at Kyoto University.

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Shigeyama Sensaku

Shigeyama Sensaku, Noh farce actor (photo taken on Oct. 22, 2000)

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Kyogen actor Shigeyama, 4 others receive top culture awards

TOKYO, Japan - Five recipients of the Order of Culture pose for a photo with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda (3rd from L) at the Imperial Palace on Nov. 3. (From L to R) are sculptor Shinya Nakamura, Akira Mikazuki, professor emeritus in judicial studies at the University of Tokyo, Fukuda, Kyogen actor Shigeyama Sensaku, Koji Nakanishi, professor emeritus in organic chemistry at Columbia University, and Tokindo Okada, professor emeritus in development biology at Kyoto University. (Kyodo)