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Recently, Fujiwara Norika, who has not appeared for a long time, was photographed going out for a walk with her husband.
In the five years since their marriage, the two have often been photographed going out to play together. On Fujiwara Norika's personal social media account, she also often makes various dishes for her husband.
It can be seen that the celebrity couple has a very good private relationship.
Unlike many actresses who retired to their families after marriage, Fujiwara Norika continued to engage in acting after marriage.
And her husband, Ainosuke Kataoka, who is the heir of the Kabuki family, does not have the shelf of "famous and prestigious family" at all, but is very willing to cooperate with Fujiwara Norika's pace in life.
With the support of her husband and a career she likes, Fujiwara Norika is a good example of marriage in the Japanese entertainment circle.
But not every actress married to a Kabuki family can have the same happiness.
Once you enter the giants, it is as deep as the sea
Kabuki, which has a history of more than 400 years, is as important as Chinese Peking Opera and has an extraordinary place in Japanese society.
As an important intangible cultural heritage in Japan, even the heirs of the Kabuki family are as precious as "national treasures".
Being able to become the daughter-in-law of a Kabuki family is also an important goal for many Japanese women to cross the class and enter the upper class.
But after marrying into the rich, the life not only does not look bright and beautiful on the surface, but is full of heartache..........
Hiroko Mita, who debuted in the 1980s, was a teenage idol with first-class vocal music and acting skills in the Showa era, along with Hiroko Maru and Tomoko Koizumi.
In the more than ten years since her debut, she has had many excellent works in music and film and television works.
In 1991, at the height of her popularity, Hiroko Mita married Shibasuke Nakamura, the heir of the Kabuki family, and quit the entertainment industry to run the family full-time.
More than 20 years after marriage, As the daughter-in-law of a rich family that everyone envies, Hiroko Mita spoke on a variety show about the many grievances encountered in this marriage and years of effort.
In fact, in the 3 and a half years of dating, every time I went out to date Hiroko Mita, I had to pick up the man.
In order to distinguish between identities, Nakamura never invited her to her home.
After passing through many inspections, the in-laws recognized her identity, and Hiroko Mita was eligible to enter the door of the Nakamura family.
After marriage, Hiroko Mita single-handedly took care of all the family's household chores.
From the daily schedule she announced, it can also be seen that this rich daughter-in-law is really not good.
After getting up at 3 a.m., I went back and forth to the theater four times a day to do my husband's logistics.
In addition to working as a driver and assistant, he also handles theater affairs, writes thank-you notes and prepares gifts for each guest before the guests arrive, makes lunches for the staff, and entertains the management to enter.
The household chores such as eating and drinking Lazar for the three children in the family also fell on her alone.
At the end of the day, not only are three meals too busy to eat, but even the sleep time is compressed to 4 hours.
When the performance actually began, Hiroko Mita, as the "Uchiko", could not sit on the stage and enjoy it. You can only take time off from the side screen to watch your husband's performance.
In order to protect the hands of kabuki actors, Nakamura Shibaki never mentioned heavy objects.
The three sons in the family, who are also the future heirs of Kabuki, naturally cannot lift heavy objects.
When going out, the luggage and parcels of the family need to be borne by Hiroko Mita alone.
In order not to embarrass her husband in front of people, Hiroko Mita also squeezed time out of her busy routine to go to the beauty salon for maintenance.
Perhaps, some people will say that the "giants" will not hire nannies to assist with household chores?
In kabuki families, the hostess takes care of all the work herself, a tradition that has been passed down through the centuries in the industry.
In addition to taking care of family affairs and theater work, Hiroko Mita also pays for her husband's face project.
A few years ago, Nakamura Shibami was exposed to a derailment scandal by gossip weekly.
In order to calm the incident, Hiroko Mita apologized and insisted that she would never divorce.
Like Hiroko Mita, the late Japanese female anchor Mayo Kobayashi experienced the same "nightmare of the giants".
As the female anchor of the news show "News Zero", Mayo Kobayashi met Kabuki heir Ichikawa Kai-ōzo during an interview.
After several years of dating, the two entered the palace of marriage. In order to show their identity, the wedding cost a total of 500 million yen.
The invited guests were also politicians, including Junichiro Koizumi, then Prime Minister.
Before marriage, Hai Laozang became a frequent visitor to not only nightclubs and bars. The female stars who have been in contact with her are from Ryoko Yonekura to Riki Miyazawa, and there are as many as a dozen of them.
After the marriage, Hai Laozang did not relent, on the contrary, the news of going to the bar to find fun has been endless.
Moreover, in a dispute over the jealousy of the drinking woman, he was beaten beyond recognition.
In order to avoid the media, Hai Laozang pushed Kobayashi Mayang out to apologize to the public.
In addition to carrying the pot and enduring cheating betrayal, Kobayashi Mayo's daily life cannot avoid the responsibility of serving as a full-time nanny for her husband's family.
Every day, he got up early and took care of the housework, and also took care of all the matters of her husband's performance. And in the national tour, work as a driver and agent.
Over the past few years, Mayang Kobayashi suffered from breast cancer under the multiple pressures of grievances and fatigue.
He died at the age of 35.
In Japan, there are countless "national treasure daughters-in-law" like them, still silently paying under the shadow of their husband's aura. The difference is that they don't have a voice channel to find a place to talk about their hard work.
The superficially glamorous status is also like a shackle, imprisoning them to endure such grievances blindly in accordance with tradition.
I just don't know if, as people who have come over, they have regretted the pressure that accompanied the glory of this Kabuki giant.
The pictures in the text are from the network and b station video av8899487, av6766883