Stage names:

Saigoku Hyôgorô I
Saigoku Tôgorô

Line number: SHODAI (I)

Poetry name: Karaku

Existence: 1656 ~ 9th day of the 12th lunar month of 1705 ^[1]

Connection:

Son: Saigoku Hyôgorô II

Disciples: Saigoku Hyôsuke, Saigoku Heinai, Saigoku Hyôgorô III

Career:

1670: he started his career in Edo, performing under the name of Saigoku Tôgorô.

Beginning of the 1680s: he took the name of Saigoku Hyôgorô I.

7th lunar month of 1694: Hyôgorô joined the troupe led by Ichimura Takenojô II, which was invited to perform at the mansion of the daimyô Matsudaira Yamato-no-Kami.

1st lunar month of 1695: Hyôgorô moved from the Ichimuraza to the Moritaza. His rank in the Edo hyôbanki, dôkegata section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1696: Hyôgorô performed at the Moritaza in the drama "Shitennô Yome Kagami".

1699: Hyôgorô joined the Yamamuraza.

6th lunar month of 1699: Hyôgorô played at the Yamamuraza the role of Sokohira Sukedayû in the drama "Isshin Onna Narukami".

7th lunar month of 1700: Hyôgorô played at the Yamamuraza the role of Sôma no Tarô in the drama "Tsuya Kanmuri Onna Masakado".

1701: Hyôgorô temporarily moved from the Yamamuraza to the Ichimuraza.

11th lunar month of 1701: Hyôgorô was back at the Yamamuraza.

3rd lunar month of 1705: Hyôgorô appeared on stage for the last time, in Edo at the Yamamuraza, playing the role of Kuwada Tôji in the drama "Keisei Yoshinagazome".

9th day of the 12th lunar month of 1705 ^[1]: Hyôgorô died in Edo ^[2].

Comments:

Saigoku Hyôgorô I was a popular and talented dôkegata actor, who was active in Edo from the end of the Kanbun era to the first years of the Hôei era.

[1] The 9th day of the 12th lunar month of the 2nd year of the Hôei era was the 21st of January 1706 in the western calendar.

[2] His tombstone was located in the cemetery of the Chôanji Temple in the district of Shiba Isarago.

Saigoku Hyôgorô I

Prints & Illustrations

The Saigoku Hyôgorô line of actors