Stage names:

Uemura Rokusaburô
Kamon Rokusaburô
Uemura Rokusaburô
Kamon Rokusaburô
Uemura Kamon Rokusaburô
Uemura Kamon

Others names:

Kamimura Rokusaburô
Kamimura Kamon Rokusaburô
Kamimura Kamon

Existence: ???

Career:

Summer 1667: recorded for the first time. His stage name was Uemura Kamon and he performed as a wakashugata in Edo.

1675: he became wakaonnagata.

1688: he performed as a kashagata under the stage name of Uemura Kamon Rokusaburô at the Ichimuraza.

1694: he took the name of Kamon Rokusaburô.

1695: He took the name of Uemura Rokusaburô. His rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual]. He shared the same rank with Yasuda Kichirôji.

1699: he performed at the Ichimuraza under the name of Kamon Rokusaburô.

1st lunar month of 1700: he took back the name of Uemura Rokusaburô, playing at the Ichimuraza the role of Tomioka-no-Omuro in the new year drama "Keisei Hama no Masago".

1st lunar month of 1701: Rokusaburô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Yamana-no-Omuro in the new year drama "Jitô Tennô Miyako Utsushi".

1st lunar month of 1702: recorded for the last time. Rokusaburô performed at the Ichimuraza in the new year drama "Mannen Dôjôji". No record afterwards.

Comments:

Uemura Rokusaburô was active in Edo from the middle of the Kanbun era to the end of the Genroku era. He was considered as the first kashagata of Kabuki history. He had absolutely no relationship to the Uemura Kichiya line of actors.

Uemura Rokusaburô as depicted in an illustration from the book "Yarô Daibutsushi" (1668)