CHIKAMATSU YÔSUKE

Playwright names:

Chikamatsu Yôsuke

Other name:

Chikamatsu Nôsuke

Existence: ???

Connection:

Master: Chikamatsu Tokuzô

Career:

5th lunar month of 1803: Yôsuke was recorded for the first time, in Ôsaka at the Kita-Shinchi no Shibai, where he worked on the drama "Gion Sairei Shinkôki", which starred Nakamura Utaemon III, Asao Kuzaemon I, Fujikawa Tomokichi I, Ôtani Tomoemon II, Asao Okujirô I, Nakayama Ittoku I and Fujikawa Hachizô III.

11th lunar month of 1804: Yôsuke worked, along with his master Chikamatsu Tokuzô, Namiki Miyosuke and Nagawa Kunisuke^[3], in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Ichiyô Ôgi no Kachidoki".

1st lunar month of 1805: Yôsuke worked in the same theater, with the same team of sakusha, on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Miyako Yoshino" and the dance-drama "Matsu no Suma-goto".

11th lunar month of 1807: Yôsuke worked, along with Nagawa Harusuke I and Namiki Miyosuke, in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Ôtô-no-Miya Asahi no Yoroi". He also worked on the drama "Yoshitsune Koshigoejô", which celebrated the shûmei of Yoshizawa Ayame V and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke IV

23rd day of the 8th lunar month of 1810^[2]: his master Chikamatsu Tokuzô died in Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1810: Yôsuke worked, along with Nagawa Harusuke I, in Kyôto at the Minamigawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Sangoku Busô Yakko no Ukejô".

8th lunar month of 1816: Yôsuke worked in Ôsaka at the Kado no Shibai on the drama "Beni Murasaki Aide Someage", the dance-drama "Michiyuki Renri no Ume Momiji" and the "Katakiuchi Tsuzure no Nishiki". No record afterwards.

Comments:

Chikamatsu Yôsuke was a Kamigata sakusha, who was active from the first half of the 1800s to the second half of the 1810s.

[2] The 23rd day of the 8th lunar month of the 7th year of the Bunka era was the 21st of September 1810 in the western calendar.

The name of Chikamatsu Yôsuke in a 1805 Kyôto hyôbanki (the name within the red box)