The sakusha Tsuruya Nanboku IV held the name of Katsu Hyôzô I from 1782 to the 10th lunar month of 1811.

Born in Edo in 1781 in the district of Takasago-chô. He was the son of Katsu Hyôzô I (the future Tsuruya Nanboku IV). He started his career as a disciple of Bandô Hikosaburô III and his first stage name was Bandô Taizô. He made his debut on stage in the 6th lunar month of 1789. He took the name of Bandô Tsurujûrô in the 11th lunar month of 1799 at the Ichimuraza, where he performed in the kaomise drama "Utsukushiki Yuki no Sekai" which celebrated the shûmei of Ogino Izaburô II. He stopped acting in 1815 and opened and managed a brothel in Fukagawa. He was named Naoeya Jûbê. He joined back the Kabuki world in 1829, receiving the name of Katsu Hyôzô II and becoming nimaime sakusha and working at the Ichimuraza from the 3rd lunar month of 1829 to the fall of the same year. He became tatesakusha in the 11th lunar month of 1829 at the Nakamuraza where he worked, along with his father Tsuruya Nanboku IV, his adopted son Tsuruya Magotarô IV and the two sakusha Nakamura Jûsuke IV and Matsumoto Kôji I, on the kaomise "Kin no Zai Sarushima Dairi" [more details]. This was Tsuruya Nanboku IV's last work as he died the 27th day of the 11th lunar month of 1829 ^[1]. Hyôzô worked in the 11th lunar month of 1830 at the Kawarasakiza, along with Segawa Jokô II, on the kaomise drama "Ichiyô Raifuku Shibuya Tsuwamono". He also worked at the Nakamuraza, along with Matsuchi Shôkichi, Nakamura Jûsuke IV and Nanboku Magotarô IV, on the kaomise drama "Oyobanu Ude Tsuna-ga-Kaomise" ^[4]. He died the 15th ^[2] day of the 12th lunar month of 1830 ^[3]. He was the adoptive father of Tsuruya Nanboku V.