Sanma Akashiya Explained

Sanma Akashiya
Native Name Lang:jpn
Birth Date:1 July 1955
Birth Place:Koza, Wakayama, Japan
(raised in Nara, Japan)
Medium:Television
Nationality:Japanese
Employer:Yoshimoto Kogyo
Active:1974-present
Genre:Owarai
Spouse:Shinobu Otake (1988 - 1992)
Footnotes:Same year/generation as:
Shinsuke Shimada
Tsutomu Sekine
All Hanshin-Kyojin

is a Japanese comedian,[1] TV presenter, radio personality and actor most commonly known as Sanma-san. His real name is .[2] His talent agency is Yoshimoto Kogyo and his shishô (master) back when he studied rakugo is Shōfukutei Matsunosuke.

Together with Beat Takeshi and Tamori, Sanma is said to be one of the "" television comedians of Japan.[3] He is known for his ability to endlessly carry a conversation. His protruding front teeth are often ridiculed, even by himself.

Akashiya married actress Shinobu Otake in September 1988.[4] They met on the set of the drama series Danjo Shichinin Natsumonogatari. At the time, Otake had one son from her previous marriage with her husband who had died. The marriage lasted 4 years as they divorced in September 1992. The two remained friends after and are sometimes seen on variety television programs together. They have one daughter, Imalu Otake, born in 1989.[5] Imalu went on to become a tarento in 2009 under the name IMALU.

Current TV programs

Present

Specials

Past TV programs

MC/Regular

Nippon TV

TBS TV

TV Asahi

TV Tokyo

Fuji TV

TV series

Radio

Notes and References

  1. News: Sakana-kun in Tohoku; Sanma x Okamura; CM of the week: Sukiya. 19 September 2011. The Japan Times. 18 September 2011.
  2. Book: Akashiya. Big na Kibun. Shueisha. 1980.
  3. Web site: Sanma, Tamori, Takeshi to co-host NTV comedy specials ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion . Japantoday.com . 2008-11-04 . 2014-12-05.
  4. Web site: Tanaka . Nobuko . Romance at the edge of reason . The Japan Times . 2014-12-05.
  5. Web site: 'The Cat Lawyer and the Invisible Man'; Imalu as a barista; CM of the week: Loto 7 . The Japan Times . 2014-12-05.
  6. Web site: 16 July 2024 . 櫻井翔×上田晋也×明石家さんま、五輪名場面の新事実を紹介 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240716021547/https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20240716-2985791/ . 16 July 2024 . 16 July 2024 . My Navi . Japanese.