Stage names:

Ichikawa Ebijûrô II
Ichikawa Ichizô II
Ichikawa Sukezô

Guild: Harimaya

Line number: NIDAIME (II)

Poetry names: Shinshô

Existence: 1806 ~ 24th day of the 11th lunar month of 1829

Connection:

Father: Ichikawa Ebijûrô I

Career:

1806: born in Ôsaka.

1817: Ichikawa Sukezô takes the name of Ichikawa Ichizô II.

1st lunar month of 1820: Ichizô and his father Ichikawa Ebijûrô I go together to Edo; Ichizô becomes tachiyaku and plays at the Kawarazakiza in the new year program "Tama no Haru Soga no Kadomatsu".

Fall 1821: Ichizô and his father Ichikawa Ebijûrô I go back to Ôsaka.

16th day of the 7th lunar month of 1827: his father Ichikawa Ebijûrô I dies.

Fall 1827: Ichizô go to Edo.

11th lunar month of 1827: Ichizô plays at the Ichimuraza the roles of Okabe no Yatarô and the hairdresser Goichibei in the kaomise drama "Kawaranu Hana Genji no Kaomise".

Fall 1828: Ichizô goes back to Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1828: Ichikawa Ichizô II takes the name of Ichikawa Ebijûrô II.

1st lunar month of 1829: Ebijûrô's rank in the Kamigata hyôbanki, jitsuaku/katakiyaku section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent). He is the kanjiku for this category of actors.

7th lunar month of 1829: Ebijûrô appears on stage for the last time, in Ôsaka at the Kado no Shibai, where he plays the role of Daishichi in the drama "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi". He also plays the roles of Horiguchi Man'emon and Ude no Jihei in the drama "Kizugawa no Hakkei". He suddenly falls ill and has to retire.

24th day of the 11th lunar month of 1829: Ebijûrô dies in Ôsaka; his tombstone is located in the precincts of the Daifukuin sub-temple of the Mitsudera temple (Ôsaka).

Comments:

Ichikawa Ebijûrô II was a promising Ôsaka actor, who followed in the footsteps of his father as a tachiyaku or jitsuaku actor. He unfortunately died too young.

Ichikawa Ebijûrô II playing the role of Horiguchi Man'emon in the drama "Sao no Uta Kizugawa Hakkei", which was staged in the 7th lunar month of 1829 in Ôsaka at the Kado no Shibai (print made by Shunshosai Hokuchô)

Print made by Shunkôsai Hokushû in 1827

Print made by Shumbaisai Hokuei in 1829

Print made by Utagawa Kunihiro in 1829

Print made by Shunshosai Hokuchô in 1829

The Ichikawa Ichizô line of actors

The Ichikawa Ebijûrô line of actors