FUJIKAWA HACHIZÔ I

Asao Tamejûrô I (top;1st from left), Anegawa Daikichi I (top;2nd from left), Nakayama Raisuke I (top;2nd from right), Kirinoya Gonjûrô III (top;1st from right), Fujikawa Hachizô I (bottom;1st from left), Yoshizawa Sakinosuke II (bottom;2nd from left), Arashi Sanjûrô III (bottom;2nd from right) and Bandô Toyosaburô I (bottom;1st from right) playing the roles of the tedai Gonkurô, the keisei Miyako, Nan Yohachi, Hiraoka Gôzaemon, the sumôtori Hanaregoma Chôkichi, Oseki, the tedai Shôhachi and Yamazaki Yojibê in the drama "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki", which was staged in the 12th lunar month of 1762 at the Naka no Shibai

Arashi Sankatsu I (top/1st from left), Matsuyama Sanjûrô (top/2nd from left), Arashi Hinasuke I (bottom/1st from left), Kasaya Matazô (bottom/2nd from left), Fujikawa Hachizô I (in the center of the image, holding somebody with the left hand), Kirinoya Gonjûrô III (top/3rd from left; the "holden" actor), Yamashita Shingorô (bottom/1st from right) and Yoshizawa Ayame III (top/1st from right) playing the roles of ???, Tsuji Hôin, Umegae, a boatman, the boatman Matsuemon (in reality the warrior Higuchi no Jirô Kanemitsu), a boatman, a boatman and Oyoshi in the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki", which was staged in the 12th lunar month of 1766 at the Kado no Shibai

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

Late Fujikawa Hachizô I in an illustration from the book "Yakusha Mono Iwai" (1784)
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