Stage names:
Ôkawa Sanchô
Onoe Matsusuke III
Onoe Eizaburô II
Other name: Onoe Chôtarô
Guild: Otowaya
Line number: SANDAIME (III)
Poetry name: Sanchô
Existence: 1805 ~ 2nd day of the 7th lunar month of 1851
Connections:
Father: Onoe Kikugorô III
Brothers: Onoe Eizaburô IV, Onoe Kikunosuke
Career:
1805: born in Edo.
11th lunar month of 1809: he makes his first stage appearance at the Ichimuraza, receiving the name of Onoe Eizaburô II during the great shûmei of Onoe Matsusuke I and Onoe Eizaburô I, who take the respective names of Onoe Shôroku I and Onoe Matsusuke II.
11th lunar month of 1814: Onoe Matsusuke II and Onoe Eizaburô II take the respective names of Onoe Baikô III and Onoe Matsusuke III at the Nakamuraza, playing together in the drama "Ninin Muko Mikurai Sadame".
7th lunar month of 1815: premiere at the Kawarazakiza of Tsuruya Namboku IV's drama "Haji Momiji Ase no Kaomise" (commonly called "Date no Jûyaku"); Matsusuke plays the role of Watanabe Mimbunosuke [casting].
7th lunar month of 1825: Matsusuke plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Ôboshi Rikiya in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura".
7th lunar month of 1825: premiere at the Nakamuraza of Tsuruya Namboku IV's ghost play "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan"; Matsusuke plays the role of Okuda Shôzaburô [casting].
4th lunar month of 1848: Onoe Kikugorô III and Onoe Matsusuke III take the respective names of Ôkawa Hashizô I and Ôkawa Sanchô.
8th lunar month of 1848: tour in Nagoya; he settles in Ôsaka with his father.
4th lunar month of 1849: his father Ôkawa Hashizô I dies on the way back to Edo.
5th lunar month of 1851: Ôkawa Sanchô takes back the name of Onoe Matsusuke III and plays at the Kawarazakiza the role of Kohei in the drama "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan", which commemorates the 2nd anniversary (3rd memorial service) of the death of Onoe Kikugorô III.
Comments:
Onoe Matsusuke III was a tachiyaku, who was the son of a Kabuki giant but made an average career in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Onoe Matsusuke III playing the role of Kokingo in the classic "Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura" (print made by Utagawa Kunisada I)
Print made by Utagawa Kunisada in 1831
The Onoe Eizaburô line of actors
The Onoe Matsusuke line of actors