It was revealed this week that popular young kabuki star Ichikawa Shinnosuke (25) is the father of an illegitimate child. He is curently starring in the NHK ‘taiga’ period drama “Musashi.” The mother was identified simply as 29-year old “A”, a former singer, and their child is a one-year old girl. The couple are believed to have been seeing each other for the last six years. The scandal is similar to one involving Ichikawa Somegoro (30) back in 1997. Meanwhile, Shinnosuke’s Musashi co-star Yonekura Ryoko has denied rumours of a relationship between the two despite photographs that show otherwise.