NAMIKI GOHEI III

Playwright names:

Pen name: Namikinoya

Line number: SANDAIME (III)

Existence: 1789 ~ 14th day of the 10th lunar month of 1855^[1]

Connection:

Master: Namiki Gohei II

Career:

1789: born in Edo.

1789 ~ 1819: disciple of Shinoda Kinji I, he receives the name of Shinoda Sôroku.

7th day of the 7th lunar month of 1819: his master Namiki Gohei II dies.

1824: he takes the name of Shinoda Kinji II.

8th lunar month of 1826: premiere at the Nakamuraza of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's drama "Soga Nakamura Aki no Torikomi"; Kinji was a member of the sakusha team [casting].

11th lunar month of 1833: he takes the name of Namiki Gohei III at the Moritaza, working on the drama "Shitennô Kabuki no Yorizome".

3rd lunar month of 1839: premiere at the Kawarasakiza of Gohei's dances "Kaminari Sendô", "Yashiki Musume" and "Yuki no Shakkyô", which stars the actor Sawamura Tosshô I [more details].

3rd lunar month of 1840: premiere at the Kawarasakiza of Gohei's dance-drama "Kanjinchô" [more details].

Spring 1841: Gohei goes to Ôsaka to work at the Kado no Shibai.

1st lunar month of 1845: Gohei goes back to Edo to work at the Kawarasakiza on the new year sogamono drama "Sakigake Genji Soga no Tehajime", which celebrates the shûmei of Ichikawa Shinsha I.

7th lunar month of 1847: Gohei works at the Ichimuraza, along with Shimizu Shôshichi II, Sakurada Jisuke III, Matsushima Hanji IV, Tajima Konosuke II and Fukumori Kyûji, on a great program which is entitled "Onoe Baiju Ichidai Banashi" and which commemorates the 32nd anniversary (33rd memorial service) of late Onoe Shôroku I.

1849: Gohei goes to Nagoya and to Kamigata with the star Ôkawa Hashizô I.

Summer 1848: Gohei works as a sakusha for the actor Onoe Tamizô II.

1st lunar month of 1851: Gohei works in Ôsaka at the Wakadayû no Shibai on the drama "Iwami Jûtarô".

14th day of the 10th lunar month of 1855^[1]: Gohei dies in Edo.

Comments:

Namiki Gohei III was an Edo sakusha, who worked on more than 30 dramas. "The third Gohei was a follower of the second Namiki, and it was he who collaborated with the seventh Danjûrô in giving the finishing touches to "Kanjinchô", Kabuki's music-drama masterpiece." (Zoë Kincaid in "Kabuki, the Popular Stage of Japan")

[1] The 14th day of the 10th lunar month of the 2nd year of the Ansei era was the 23rd of November 1855 in the western calendar.

The name of Namiki Gohei III in a 1840 Edo hyôbanki (the name within the red box); all the names were the sakusha at the Kawarasakiza

The Shinoda Kinji line of playwrights

The Namiki Gohei line of playwrights