Playwright name:

Horikoshi Ikkô

Existence: ???

Connection:

Master: Horikoshi Nisôji I

Career:

Before 1742: disciple of Horikoshi Nisôji I, he received the name of Horikoshi Ikkô.

1742: Ikkô settled in Kamigata with Horikoshi Genpachi, another disciple of Horikoshi Nisôji I.

11th lunar month of 1743: Ikkô worked at the Naka no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Shiki Samba Ôgi Ikusa", which was produced by Anegawa Shinshirô I.

11th lunar month of 1756: Ikkô worked, along with Fujikawa Sakoku & Hanabusa Rochô, at the Minamigawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Daimyô Bimandai Kuniiri Kamakura Kagami", which was produced in Kyôto by Sawamura Kunitarô I for the nadai Hayagumo Chôdayû.

1st lunar month of 1757: Ikkô worked in the same theater, along with Fujikawa Sakoku and Hanabusa Rochô, on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Chimoto no Taki".

5th lunar month of 1757: Ikkô worked in the same theater on the drama "Naniwa-zome Sairei Hinagata".

9th lunar month of 1757: Ikkô worked in the same theater, along with Hanabusa Rochô, on the drama "Ôtomo no Kuronushi Momo Yoguruma". No record afterwards.

Comments:

Horikoshi Ikkô was a supporting sakusha, who was born and trained in Edo but who was active in Kamigata from the first half of the 1740s to the second half of the 1750s.

The name of Horikoshi Ikkô in a 1757 Kyôto yakuwari banzuke (the zone within the red shape)