Stage names:

Tamagawa Sennojô IV
Tamagawa Sarashi

Line number: YODAIME (IV)

Existence: ??? ~ ???

Connection:

Master: Tamagawa Sennojô III

Disciple: Tamagawa Fujinosuke

Career:

1680s: a relative of late Tamagawa Sennojô II. He started his career in Edo around 1685 as a disciple of Tamagawa Sennojô III, performing under the name of Tamagawa Sarashi.

1692: he took the name of Tamagawa Sennojô IV.

1st lunar month of 1699: Sennojô settled in Kyôto, where he became kashagata.

1st lunar month of 1702: premiere in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Keisei Mibu Dainenbutsu", which was produced by Kokon Shinzaemon; Sennojô played the role of Chiryôin [more details].

7th lunar month of 1702: premiere in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Mibu Aki no Nenbutsu", a follow-up of "Keisei Mibu Dainenbutsu", which was produced by Kokon Shinzaemon; Sennojô played the role of Hakataya Koshirô's mother [more details].

11th lunar month of 1704: Sennojô played in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater the role of Uga-no-Tsubone in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Kisshô Tennyo Anzan no Tama".

3rd lunar month of 1711: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-(shiro)jô (superior - (white) superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1712: Sennojô performed in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Banbanzai".

1st lunar month of 1713: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1716: Sennojô played in Kyôto the role of Tawara no Tôta's widow in the kaomise drama "Tatsu no Miyako Ikuyo no Yonedawara", which was produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I.

1st lunar month of 1717: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, fell to jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1717: Sennojô performed in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Genjôraku Biwa no Ôumi", which was produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I.

11th lunar month of 1718: Sennojô played in Kyôto the role of Hanazono's okugata (and kôshitsu) in Adachi Saburôzaemon's kaomise drama "Shiga no Miyako Kogane no Hanazono", which was produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I for the nadai Ebisuya Kichirôbê.

1st lunar month of 1723: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual]. He shared the same rank with Tamekawa Kohyôe.

1st lunar month of 1724: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual]. He shared the same rank with Ichikawa Toyama III. He performed at Miyako Mandayû's theater in the new year drama "Keisei Futakamiyama", which was produced by Segawa Kikunojô I. This was his last-recorded performance on a Kabuki stage. No record afterwards.

Comments:

Tamagawa Sennojô IV was born and trained in Edo as an onnagata, performing hime or musume roles during the 1680s and the 1690s. He went to Kyôto in 1699 to become a successful kashagata actor. He was active in the Imperial City up to the midle of the 1720s.

Tamagawa Sennojô IV

Prints & Illustrations

The Tamagawa Sennojô line of actors