Stage names:

Nakamura Shingorô II
Nakamura Shingo [2]
Nakamura Shingorô II
Iwai Hanshirô 3.4
Iwai Hannosuke
Nakamura Hatsugorô

Guild: Tennôjiya

Line number: SHODAI (I)

Poetry name: Tachû

Existence: 1747 ~ 19th day of the 11th lunar month of 1777 ^[1]

Connection:

Adoptive father: Nakamura Tomijûrô I

Brother: Yamashita Kinsaku II

Career:

1747 ~ 1752: born in Kamigata. Adopted by Nakamura Tomijûrô I, he received the name of Nakamura Hatsugorô.

Fall 1752: Hatsugorô went to Edo with his adoptive father Nakamura Tomijûrô I.

11th lunar month of 1753: Hatsugorô made his first official stage apperance, in Edo at the Nakamuraza, where he performed as a koyaku in the kaomise drama "Hyakumanki Tsuwamono Taiheiki".

Fall 1759: Hatsugorô and his adoptive father Nakamura Tomijûrô I went back to Kamigata.

11th lunar month of 1759: Hatsugorô played at the Kado no Shibai in Namiki Shôzô I's kaomise drama "Saiwai Genji Chôkyû no Maki", which was produced by Nakayama Bunshichi I, celebrated the comeback in Kamigata of Nakamura Tomijûrô I and the shûmei of Arashi Koisa II.

11th lunar month of 1763: Nakamura Hatsugorô took the name of Iwai Hannosuke in Kyôto, performing in the kaomise drama "Shôchikubai Ôshimadai".

11th lunar month of 1764: Iwai Hannosuke took the name of Iwai Hanshirô in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai, playing the roles of Honda Jirô and Honda Saburô in Namiki Shôzô I's kaomise drama "Genpei Tsûrikimaru".

11th lunar month of 1765: the disciple of Iwai Hanshirô III's son-in-law took the name of Iwai Hanshirô IV in Edo. The Hanshirô in Edo was considered as the real heir of the Iwai clan whereas the Hanshirô in Kamigata was not acknowledged as a legitimate holder of the name, even if he was a tachiyaku like Iwai Hanshirô III whereas Iwai Hanshirô IV was an onnagata!

11th lunar month of 1769: Iwai Hanshirô took the name of Nakamura Shingorô II in Kyôto, performing in the kaomise drama "Asahimaru Genji Kagami", which was produced by Onoe Kumesuke and welcomed in the Imperial City the actor Sawamura Sôjûrô II and his son Sawamura Tanosuke I.

1st lunar month of 1770: Nakamura Shingorô II took the name of Nakamura Shingo ^[2] in the same theater, playing two roles in the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Kayoi Chidori".

Fall 1770: Shingo went to Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1770: he took back the name of Nakamura Shingorô II at the Naka no Shibai, playing the roles of Suma no Gunta and the yakko Yatahei in the kaomise drama "Ma'ichimonjiya Sakigake Hyôban", which was produced by Ogawa Kichitarô I.

1st lunar month of 1771: Shingorô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

Fall 1774: Shingorô went to Edo.

11th lunar month of 1774: Shingorô played at the Moritaza the role of the yakko Imahei in the kaomise drama "Ichi no Tomi Tsuki no Kaomise"; his stage partners were his adoptive father Nakamura Tomijûrô I, Ichikawa Danjûrô V, Matsumoto Kôshirô IV, Bandô Mitsugorô I, Ôtani Hiroemon III, Bandô Matatarô IV, Sawamura Chôjûrô IV, Iwai Hanshirô IV and Nakamura Noshio I.

1st lunar month of 1776: Shingorô played in the same theater the role of Yamabuki Gozen in the new year drama "Sono Kyôdai Fuji no Sugatami". This was his last stage appearance. He fell ill and had to retire from the Kabuki world.

19th day of the 11th lunar month of 1777 ^[1]: Shingorô and Nakamura Noshio I, the son-in-law of Nakamura Tomijûrô I, died in Edo the same day.

Comments:

Nakamura Shingorô II was a promising tachiyaku actor, who made his career from the beginning of the 1750s to the end of the 1770s not only in his native Kamigata but also on the stages of Edo. He was unfortunately too frail and died in his prime.

[1] The 19th day of the 11th lunar month of the 6th year of the An'ei era was the 18th of December 1777 in the western calendar.

[2] Recorded as Nakamura Shinkichi, not Nakamura Shingo, in Nojima Jusaburô's book "Kabuki Jinmei Jiten".

The actors Sanogawa Hanazuma III, Nakamura Shingorô II, Fujikawa Hachizô I and Nakamura Shirogorô V playing the roles of Tatsuoka's wife Otsuma, the yakko Nikuzô, Kose no Tatsuoka and Wake no Munetsura in the kaomise drama "Temomutsumajiya Ryûgû no Shimadai", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1771 at the Naka no Shibai

The Iwai Hanshirô line of actors

The Nakamura Shingorô line of actors