Stage names:
Yamatoya Jimbei II
Tsurukawa Tatsunosuke I
Nickname: Seizaemon
Guild: Yamatoya
Line number: NIDAIME (II)
Existence: ??? ~ 10th day of the 1st lunar month of 1704
Connections:
(Adopted ?) father: Yamatoya Jimbei I
Sons: Yamatoya Jimbei III, Yamatoya Jinnosuke
Nephew: Mizuki Tatsunosuke I
Career:
1677: Tsurukawa Tatsunosuke I takes the name of Yamatoya Jimbei II. He is both a tachiyaku actor and a nadai.
1680: Jimbei and his zamoto Matsushima Han'ya I produce together the drama "Sumadera no Kaichô".
17th day of the 5th lunar month of 1683: the courtesan Yamatoya Ichinojô and her lover Goze no Chôemon commit suicide together in Ôsaka. This event causes quite a stir and three Ôsaka theaters decide to capitalize on the situation by simultaneously producing the first shinjûmono of Kabuki history [more details]. Jimbei produces this shinjûmono, starring the actors Murakami Ichinojô and Yamashita Hanzaemon in the roles of the courtesan and her lover.
1691: Jimbei produces in Kyôto the drama "Ichi-no-Tani Sakaotoshi", in which he plays the role of Kagekiyo.
11th lunar month of 1693: Jimbei plays the role of Iwata Hiranojô in the drama "Hako Denju", which is produced in Kyôto by Murayama Heiemon III. His stage partners are Mizuki Tatsunosuke I, Ichikawa Danjûrô I, Tomizawa Samanosuke, Otowa Katsunojô, Uemura Takenojô and Onoe Taganojô I.
9th lunar month of 1694: Jimbei plays in the same theater the role of Satsuma-no-Kami Tadanori in the drama "Kumagai Nagori no Sakazuki".
1st lunar month of 1699: Jimbei's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).
1st lunar month of 1700: Jimbei produces in Kyôto the drama "Keisei Zen no Tsuna", in which he plays the roles of Hiyô Jinshichi and Fukuyama Toranojô. The line-up includes the actors Yoshizawa Ayame I, Mizuki Tatsunosuke I, Hayakawa Hatsuse, Onoyama Ujiemon, Onogawa Ugenji, Takenaka Kiyonosuke, Matsunaga Rokuroemon, Sugiyama Kanzaemon I and Fujimoto Heijûrô.
1st lunar month of 1701: Jimbei produces in Kyôto at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater the drama "Keisei Sagano no Hara", in which he plays the role of Itoyanagi Sanzô. The line-up includes the actors Sakata Tôjûrô I, Yoshizawa Ayame I, Mizuki Tatsunosuke I, Shinozuka Jirozaemon, Segawa Takenojô I, Takashima Onoe and Fujimoto Heijûrô.
3rd lunar month of 1702: Jimbei's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).
7th lunar month of 1702: Jimbei plays the role of Furuteya Hachirobei in the drama "Yotsubashi Mitsusegawa", which is produced in Ôsaka by Iwai Hanshirô II.
1st lunar month of 1703: Jimbei plays the role of Himemaru Nuinosuke in Chikamatsu Monzaemon I's drama "Keisei Mitsu no Kuruma", which is produced in Kyôto at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater by his son Yamatoya Tôkichi.
1st lunar month of 1704: Jimbei plays in the same theater the role of Urashima Tarosuke in the drama "Musume Chôja Hagoita no Eawase". He suddenly dies the 10th day of the 1st lunar month of 1704.
Comments:
Yamatoya Jimbei II was both an actor and a nadai, who made a successful career in the cities of Kyôto and Ôsaka. His fields of excellence were wagoto, nuregoto, yatsushigoto and budôgoto. He was also a pioneer in the use of roppô.
Two of his brothers were famous Buddhist priests.
Yamatoya Jimbei II