FUJIKAWA HACHIZÔ

FIVE GENERATIONS

Fujikawa Hachizô I

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô I held this name from the 11th lunar month of 1752 to the 12th lunar month of 1777.

Fujikawa Hachizô I and Nakamura Kiyosaburô I (right) performing playing the roles of Tamabuchi Kyûma and ??? in the drama "Sanjikkoku Yofune no Hajimari" which was staged in the 12th lunar month of 1771 at the Kado no Shibai

Fujikawa Hachizô II

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô II held this name from the 4th lunar month of 1778 to the 3rd lunar month of 1787.

Fujikawa Hachizô II playing the role of Nuregami Chôgorô in the "Komeya" scene of the drama "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki", which was staged in Kyôto in the 5th lunar month of 1782

Fujikawa Hachizô III

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô III held this name from the 11th lunar month of 1795 to the 5th lunar month of 1805.

Fujikawa Hachizô III (left) playing the role of the yakko Yokanpei in the drama "Ashiya Dôman Ôuchi Kagami", which was staged in the 9th lunar month of 1804 at the Kado no Shibai (cover for an ezukushi banzuke)

Fujikawa Hachizô 3.4
Fujikawa Hachizô

Dates of birth and death unknown. An actor Kamigata holding the name of Fujikawa Hachizô performed in Edo at the end of the 1820s. He played the roles of Konishi Danjô Sukeemon and Taira no Motomori in the drama "Mitsugi no Yuki Genji Hiiki", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1828 at the Ichimuraza. His yearly salary for this new season in Edo was 200 ryô. No records of stage performances after 1829. He was never acknowledged as an official member of the line.

The name of Fujikawa Hachizô in the 1829 Edo hyôbanki (the zone within the red box)

Fujikawa Hachizô IV
Fujikawa Hachizô IV^[1]

| Fujikawa Happo VI

| Fujikawa Hachitarô III

Dates of birth and death unknown. He started his career as a disciple of Fujikawa Tomokichi II, who gave him the name of Fujikawa Hachitarô III. He took the name of Fujikawa Happo VI in the 11th lunar month of 1839 in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai. Happo was the haimyô of Fujikawa Hachizô I, Fujikawa Hachizô II and Fujikawa Hachizô III. He was finally allowed to take the name of Fujikawa Hachizô IV^[1] in Ôsaka in 1842 and held it up to the end of the 1860s. He did not achieve any fame for himself in ôshibai.

Haimyô	Yagô
Happo	Ôzakaya

Fujikawa Hachizô IV during his shûmei in Ôsaka in 1842
From a surimono made by Matsukawa Hanzan, which is courtesy of Rolf Degener Gallery

Fujikawa Hachizô V

The actor Fujikawa Buzaemon IV held the name of Fujikawa Hachizô V^[2] from May 1958 to 1973.

Notes

[1] It is worthy to note that he was considered on some documents as the sixth Fujikawa Hachizô. However, he is referenced as the fourth Fujikawa Hachizô in Nojima Jusaburô's book "Kabuki Jinmei Jiten" and in "Kabuki Haiyû Meiseki Benran", the two major works referencing the actors lines.

[2] This actor considered himself as being the 7th Fujikawa Hachizô, not the 5th.