Stage names:

Ikushima Jûshirô
Ikushima Jûshirô
Ikushima Jûshirô
Takeshima Hanaemon
Ikushima Jûshirô
Hashimoto Jûgorô
Hashimoto Kinsaku II
Hashimoto Denzô I

Existence: ???

Connection:

Master: Hashimoto Kinsaku I

Disciples: Ikushima Kinzô ^[1], Ikushima Ginzô, Hashimoto Denzô II ^[2]

Career:

Before 1698: disciple of Hashimoto Kinsaku I, his first stage name was Hashimoto Denzô I. He performed in Kyôto as a wakashugata.

1698: Denzô played in Kyôto the role of the hyakushô Yatôta in the drama "Semimaru Nido no Shusse".

Fall 1698: Denzô settled in Edo.

1699: he took the name of Hashimoto Kinsaku II at the Nakamuraza.

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

11th lunar month of 1699: Kinsaku performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Taira no Kiyomori Bijin Zoroi".

1st lunar month of 1701: Kinsaku played at the Nakamuraza the role of Mitsuôgi Kanamenosuke in the new year drama "Keisei Ôshôkun".

3rd lunar month of 1701: Kinsaku's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, wakashugata section, was jô (superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1702: Kinsaku played at the Moritaza the role of Shinoda Shichirô in the kaomise drama "Tenchijin Tsutsumamori".

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

4th lunar month of 1703: Kinsaku played in the same theater the role of Ariwara no Narihira in Mimasuya Hyôgo's drama "Naritasan Bunshin Fudô".

7th lunar month of 1703: Kinsaku played in the same theater the role of Nuinosuke in Mimasuya Hyôgo's drama "Oguri Jûnidan".

11th lunar month of 1703: Kinsaku played at the Ichimuraza the role of Tadasugawa Tashiro in Mimasuya Hyôgo's kaomise drama "Genji Rokujûjô".

11th lunar month of 1704: he became tachiyaku, took the name of Hashimoto Jûgorô and performed at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Onna Araoka Nishiki no Tazuna"; his stage partners were Murayama Heiemon III, Katsuyama Matagorô, Ikushima Daikichi I, Tsugawa Handayû, Tomizawa Hanzaburô I, Tamon Shôzaemon II and Onoe Genji.

4th lunar month of 1705: Jûgorô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was naka-no-jô (superior in the middle class).

Fall 1709: he went back to Kyôto.

11th lunar month of 1709: he took the name of Ikushima Jûshirô and performed as a tachiyaku in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater in the kaomise drama "Takekaburi Mangokumochi", which was produced by Takeshima Kôjûrô.

3rd lunar month of 1710: Jûshirô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was naka-no-jô-jô (superior - superior in the middle class).

11th lunar month of 1710: Jûshirô played at Hoteiya Umenojô's theater the role of Hôjô Tôtarô in the kaomise drama "Tagasode Ume Sakura Matsu".

3rd lunar month of 1711: Jûshirô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô (superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1711: Jûshirô performed in Kyôto at Fujita Magojûrô's theater in the kaomise drama "Hinode Chôja", which was produced by Nakamura Shirôji.

3rd lunar month of 1712: Jûshirô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô (superior) [visual].

Fall 1712: Jûshirô went to Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1712: Jûshirô performed in Ôsaka in the kaomise drama "Inari Daimyô Shintaku no Kamado", which was produced by Mitsuyama Shichisaburô; his stage partners were Otowa Jirosaburô I, Sawamura Chôjûrô I, Yamashita Kamenojô I, Mihara Jûdayû I, Sanogawa Hanazuma I, Ôshima Kajûrô, Kaneko Jûrozaemon, Takashima Onoe and Sawamura Kodayû.

3rd lunar month of 1713: Jûshirô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô (superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1714: Jûshirô played in Ôsaka the role of the Yuzuruki Daihachi in the kaomise drama "Yonedawara Mangoku no Minato", which was produced by Shinozuka Sôhachi.

1st lunar month of 1715: Jûshirô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-(shiro)jô (superior - (white) superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1718: he took the name of Takeshima Hanaemon and performed in Ôsaka at the Kita no Shinchi Shibai in the kaomise drama "In'yô Inui no Machi-zukuri".

1st lunar month of 1721: he went back to Kyôto, took back the name of Ikushima Jûshirô and performed in the new year drama "Bankoku Kin no Fukujusô", which was produced by Ogino Yaegiri I.

3rd lunar month of 1721: Jûshirô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-(shiro)hankichi (superior - superior - (white) half excellent) [visual].

1722 ~ 1731: no record at all ^[3].

11th lunar month of 1732: Jûshirô played in Ôsaka at the Kita no Shinchi Shibai ^[4] the roles of the priest Narukami and his brother Ôinosuke the kaomise drama "Hana Yakata Imose no Matsukane", which was produced by Yamamoto Kyôzô. He used different ideograms for his stage name:

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1st lunar month of 1733: Jûshirô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-(shiro)hankichi (superior - superior - (white) half excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1735: Jûshirô took back his classic name and went on tour in Nagoya; he performed in the precincts of the Seijuin Temple. No record afterwards.

Comments:

Ikushima Jûshirô was a tachiyaku actor, who was born in Kyôto but started his career in Edo, where he was active between 1698 and 1709. He went back to Kamigata after 11 seasons in Edo. He was good in aragoto or jitsugoto but his forte was budôgoto.

[1] Was Ikushima Jûshirô the master of Ikushima Kinzô? Ikushima Kinzô was born in 1759. If we assume that Ikushima Jûshirô was 10 years old when he went to Edo in 1698 and that Ikushima Kinzô was 10 years old when he started to be the disciple of Ikushima Jûshirô, it would mean that the master was more than 80 years old at the start of the apprenticeship. Not impossible indeed but we do not exclude the hypothesis that there was another actor who held the name of Ikushima Jûshirô and was the master of Ikushima Kinzô.

[2] Hashimoto Denzô II was recorded as performing at the Nakamuraza in the 11th lunar month of 1702. His rank in the 1703 Edo hyôbanki, wakashugata section, was naka (middle class). No record afterwards.

[3] Was he sick ? Was he in tabi shibai? Was he in miyaji shibai? We don't know.

[4] Also called Sakurabashi Ôshibai (literally 'Grand Kabuki at the Cherry Tree Bridge').

Ikushima Jûshirô (left) and Yamamoto Hikogorô (right) playing the roles of the Yuzuruki brothers Daihachi and Kazuemon in the kaomise drama "Yonedawara Mangoku no Minato", which was staged in Ôsaka in the 11th lunar month of 1714