Kurumi Kobato
Natsue Washizu (鷲津 名都江, Washizu Natsue; born January 20, 1948), professionally also known as Kurumi Kobato (小鳩 くるみ, Kobato Kurumi), is a Japanese academic, translator, singer, actress, television personality and voice actress.
Having debuted as a child singer and actress at the age of four in 1952, she subsequently signed with Victor Entertainment and acted in Japan's first television drama Ponpoko Monogatari. From 1964 to 1972, she was the "Onē-san" on Captain Doremifa and its successor Nakayoshi Rhythm. As a voice actress, she portrayed Kozue Ayuhara in the anime Attack No. 1 and Snow White in the Japanese dub of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Washizu later became a professor of British and American literature at Mejiro University and professor of linguistic and cultural studies at Mejiro University Graduate School. In 2004, she returned on television in Yōkoso! Mother Goose no sekai he to talk about her research.
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