Stage name:

Sakon Ibê

Existence: ??? ~ 23rd day of the 11 lunar month of 1715 ^[1]

Career:

1694: recorded for the first time, in an Edo hyôbanki; he was a kashagata.

1st lunar month of 1695: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka-no-jô (superior in the middle class).

1st lunar month of 1697: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the new year drama "Daifukuchô Sankai Nagoya", which included the first bombastic "Shibaraku" scene in Kabuki history.

3rd lunar month of 1699: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka (middle class).

5th lunar month of 1699: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the drama "Katsuragi Sayo Arashi".

11th lunar month of 1699: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the tsubone Takahashi in the kaomise drama "Taira no Kiyomori Bijin Zoroi".

1st lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the new year drama "Keisei Ôshôkun".

3rd lunar month of 1701: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka (middle class) in one hyôbanki and jô (superior) [visual] in another hyôbanki. Ibê performed in the same theater in the sumidagawamono "Shusse Sumidagawa".

5th lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed in the same theater in Mimasuya Hyôgo's drama "Nihon Gion Shôja".

11th lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Keisei Ikazuchi Mondô".

3rd lunar month of 1702: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô (superior) [visual].

10th lunar month of 1702: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the drama "Yûgao no Kannon Hôben".

3rd lunar month of 1703: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1703: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Shinshun Niwatori Taiheiki".

11th lunar month of 1704: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Konrei Iro Komachi".

3rd lunar month of 1705: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of Princess Chûjô's mother in the drama "Chûjô-hime Mitsu no Kuruma"; the role of Princess Chûjô was played by Nakamura Gentarô.

11th lunar month of 1706: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Uji Genji Yumihari-zuki", which welcomed in Edo the Kamigata actors Fujimura Handayû II and Yoshioka Motome II.

11th lunar month of 1707: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Suô no Naishi Azuma Nishiki", which welcomed in Edo the actor Arashi Kiyosaburô I.

1st lunar month of 1708: Ibê played in the same theater the role of the mother of the Soga Brothers in the new year sogamono drama "Keisei Arashi Soga"; the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune and Soga Jûrô Sukenari were played by Tomizawa Hanzaburô I and Nakamura Shichisaburô I ^[2].

3rd lunar month of 1708: Ibê played in the same theater the role of Hôjûin in Nakamura Seigorô II's drama "Chûjô-hime Kyô Hiina".

11th lunar month of 1708: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Miyasundokoro Monomiguruma".

11th lunar month of 1709: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Imagawajô Ryôshun Katoku".

3rd lunar month of 1710: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1710: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Shinsen Kazanin".

1st lunar month of 1711: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the mother of the Soga Brothers in the new year sogamono drama "Senrei Suehiro Soga"; the role of Soga Gorô Tokimune was played by Nakajima Kanzaemon I.

3rd lunar month of 1711: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1711: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the tsubone Takahashi in the kaomise drama "Mitsu Uroko Katoku Biraki".

1st lunar month of 1712: Ibê performed in the same theater in the new year sogamono drama "Kotobuki Maizuru Soga". No stage record afterwards.

3rd lunar month of 1712: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

12th lunar month of 1712: Ibê did not perform at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Konrei Shinoda-zuma" but his rank in the Edo hyôbanki in the 4th lunar month of 1713, kashagata section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual]. He shared the same rank with Kokan Tarôji I.

23rd day of the 11 lunar month of 1715 ^[1]: Ibê died in Edo.

Comments:

Sakon Ibê was a popular Edo kashagata actor, who was active from the middle of the 1790s to the beginning of the 1710s. He performed only in one theater: the Nakamuraza.

[1] The 23rd day of the 11 lunar month of the 5th year of the Shôtoku era was the 18th of December 1715 in the western calendar.

[2] This was the last appearance on stage for the Edo star Nakamura Shichisaburô I.

Nakamura Denkurô I (top/1st from left), Nakamura Shichisaburô I (top/2nd from left), Sakon Ibê (top/2nd from right), Ogawa Zengorô I (top/1st from right), ??? (bottom/1st from left), Tsutsui Kichijûrô I (center) and Hayakawa Hatsuse (bottom/1st from right) playing the roles of the tôfuya Densuke, Fujiwara no Harutoki, Princess Chûjô's mother, Emi no Oshikatsu, Harutoki's Okame, Harutoki's wife Matsugae and Shiratama in the drama "Chûjô-hime Mitsu no Kuruma", which was staged in the 3rd lunar month of 1705 at the Nakamuraza