Leading kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro XII died late Sunday of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. He was 66.
He had been recuperating from pneumonia, but his condition became critical in mid-January, according to his son, Ichikawa Ebizo, who is also a kabuki actor.
Speaking to reporters outside his father's home in Tokyo on Monday morning, Ebizo described Danjuro as a man "who cared about people around him before caring about himself. He was a person of great love."