Stage names:
| Yagi Niemon |  |
| Arashi Sanjûrô I | |
| Arashi Sanjûrô I | |
| Yagi Sanjûrô | |
Line number: SHODAI (I)
Poetry name: Gaki
Existence: ??? ~ 1752 (?)
Connection:
Master: Arashi San'emon II
Sons: Arashi Daizaburô I, Arashi Sanjûrô II
Disciple: Arashi Tôjûrô
Career:
Before 1695: born in Ôsaka in the district of Tenma. His first stage name is Yagi Sanjûrô.
1695: he becomes a disciple of Arashi San'emon II and receives the name of Arashi Sanjûrô I.
7th day of the 11th lunar month of 1701: his master Arashi San'emon II dies.
Fall 1709: the actors Asao Jûjirô, Fujikawa Buzaemon I and Sanjûrô go together to Edo.
11th lunar month of 1709: Sanjûrô plays at the Yamamuraza in the kaomise drama "Taihei Okuni Kabuki".
Fall 1710: Sanjûrô goes back to Ôsaka.
11th lunar month of 1710: Sanjûrô produces at Shioya Kuroemon's theater the kaomise drama "Shusse Yakushi Jûnishin".
11th lunar month of 1711: Sanjûrô produces at Shioya Kuroemon's theater the kaomise drama "Tamba Tarô Kamado Shôgun", in which he plays the role of Kyôshima Kanshichi.
3rd lunar month of 1712: Sanjûrô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent).
11th lunar month of 1712: Sanjûrô produces at Shioya Kuroemon's theater the kaomise drama "Mikawa no Kuni Yatsuhashi no Kura Saiwai Chôja".
11th lunar month of 1713: Sanjûrô produces at Shioya Kuroemon's theater the kaomise drama "Yoyo Meoto Tsuru no Mago"; he plays the role of Nagisanosuke.
11th lunar month of 1714: Sanjûrô produces at Shioya Kuroemon's theater the kaomise drama "Bandai-ga-Ike no Tsurukame"; he plays the role of Tsuruoka Kikutarô.
11th lunar month of 1723: Sanjûrô produces at Ebisuya Kichirôbei's theater the kaomise drama "Manchô Chitose-gura", in which he plays the role of Daijinraku Fukudayû, in reality Manjûrô.
11th lunar month of 1727: Arashi Sanjûrô I and his son Arashi Tomimatsu respectively take the names of Arashi Sanjûrô I (using a new writing with the "mountain" ideogram for san) and Arashi Sanjûrô II (using the classic writing with the "three" ideogram for san).
| New writing (the first ideogram is the one for "mountain") | Classic writing (the first ideogram is the one for "three") |
| 山十郎 | 三十郎 |
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11th lunar month of 1728: Arashi Sanjûrô I takes the name of Yagi Niemon, playing the role of Yamanouchi Kôsuke in the kaomise drama "Aioi Chôja Sangai-gura", which was produced by his son Arashi Sanjûrô II in Ôsaka.
1732: he takes back the name of Arashi Sanjûrô I (classic writing) to go on tour in Nagoya, where he plays the role of Bunzô in the drama "Keisei Hotoke no Hara".
1734: he takes back the name of Arashi Sanjûrô I (new writing) to go on tour in Nagoya and Ise; his travelling and stage partners are Fujioka Daikichi, Ogino Yaegiri I, Tamiya Shirogorô, Sakakiyama Fujisaburô, Tatsuoka Someemon, Sawamura Sôgorô I, Sagawa Bunzô II, Fukuda Dan'emon, Ôtori Michiemon and Matsushima Hyôtarô. He takes back the name of Yagi Niemon when he is back in Kamigata.
End of the 1730s or beginning of the 1740s: Niemon retires from the Kabuki world.
20th day of the 5th lunar month of 1750: his son Arashi Sanjûrô II dies.
1752 (?): Niemon dies.
Comments:
Yagi Niemon was a talented tachiyaku actor, who made most of his career in Kamigata during the first half of the 18th century. His field of excellence was wagoto, especially yatsushigoto.
Yagi Niemon (left) and his son Arashi Sanjûrô II (right) playing the roles of Yamanouchi Kôsuke and Umebayashi Ôkura in the kaomise drama "Aioi Chôja Sangai-gura", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1728 in Ôsaka
The Arashi Sanjûrô line of actors
The Arashi Sanjûrô line of actors