Pen names:

Nishizawa Ippô
Kyôgen Kigodô

Others names:

Nishizawa Ippôken
Shôhon'ya Kyûzaemon
Shôhon'ya Risuke

Guild: Shôhon'ya

Poetry name: Sôsô

Existence: 1802 ~ 2nd day of the 12th lunar month of 1852 ^[1]

Connection:

Great-grandfather: Nishizawa Ippû

Career:

1802: born in Ôsaka. He was the grandson of the jôjûri sakusha Nishizawa Ippû. He was the son of Shôhon'ya Riemon and his name was Shôhon'ya Risuke.

3rd lunar month of 1831: he took the name of Nishizawa Ippô and worked, along with Nagawa Issen I, for Nakamura Utaemon III and Nakamura Matsue III at the Kado no Shibai on the drama "Hade Kurabe Ise Monogatari".

1st lunar month of 1832: Ippô worked at the Naka no Shibai, along with Nagawa Issen I, on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Hana no Yamazaki", which was produced by Nakamura Tamanosuke.

11th lunar month of 1832: Ippô worked at the Minamigawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Keisei Shina Sadame", which starred Ichikawa Danzô V, Asao Gakujûrô, Ogawa Kichitarô III, Nakamura Karoku I, Nakamura Matsue III, Bandô Jutarô I, Asao Tamejûrô III and Ôtani Tomoemon III.

1st lunar month of 1833: premiere of "Chichi Morai" at the Kado no Shibai, as the second part of the new year drama "Keisei Chigo-ga-Fuchi" [casting]. The first act was written by Kanazawa Ryûgoku I and the second by Ippô.

3rd lunar month of 1833: "Chichi Morai" was staged independently for the first time, in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai with the same casting. The new title was "Hana no Yuki Koi no Tekagami", which was also read "Hana Fubuki Koi no Tekagami" [casting].

1st lunar month of 1836: premiere at the Naka no Shibai of Ippô's drama "Hana no Ani Tsubomi no Yatsufusa" [casting].

7th lunar month of 1836: Ippô went to Edo and worked at the Ichimuraza and worked on the drama "Yo-ni-Utô Sôma no Furugosho".

2nd lunar month of 1837: Ippô went back to Ôsaka and worked at the Naka no Shibai on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Tama no Tazuna".

1st lunar month of 1839: premiere at the Kado no Shibai of Ippô's drama "Keisei Hama no Masago" [casting].

3rd lunar month of 1841: Ippô went to Edo.

5th lunar month of 1841: Ippô worked at the Ichimuraza for the star Nakamura Utaemon IV on a 7-role dance-drama based on the classic "Kanadehon Chûshingura", which was entitled "Hana Ayame Iroha Renga".

8th lunar month of 1841: Ippô worked in the same theater on the drama "Hana-ni chô Iro no Dekiaki" (similar to "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki").

6th day of the 10th lunar month of 1841 ^[2]: a fire broke out from the backstages of the Nakamuraza in the district of Sakai-chô. It spread and destroyed the Ichimuraza and the Nakamuraza. Ippô moved to the Kawarasakiza.

11th lunar month of 1841: Ippô worked at the Kawarasakiza on the classic "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami", which celebrated the shûmei of Arashi Izaburô II and Arashi Kankurô III and starred Ichikawa Ebizô V (Umeômaru, Kakuju, Takebe Genzô), Nakamura Utaemon IV (Matsuômaru, Sukune Tarô), Arashi Kichisaburô III (Terukuni, Fujiwara no Shihei), Sawamura Tosshô I (Sakuramaru), Bandô Shûka I (Yae, Princess Kariya), Onoe Kikujirô II (Chiyo, Tatsuta-no-Mae), Iwai Shijaku I (Haru, Tonami), Seki Sanjûrô III (Shiratayû, Shundô Genba), Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII (Kurikara Tarô), Ichikawa Seijûrô (Prince Tokiyo), Ichikawa Shinnosuke III (Sugiômaru) and Sawamura Shirogorô III (Yodarekuri, Washizuka Heima).

8th lunar month of 1842: Ippô went back to Ôsaka and worked at the Kado no Shibai on the drama "Beni Kaede Iroha Bunko".

9th lunar month of 1844: Ippô worked at the Naka no Shibai on the drama "Date Sugata Hagi no Edozuma".

1st lunar month of 1847: Ippô went to Edo and worked at the Ichimuraza on the new year sogamono drama "Fuji Nikki Kakizome Soga".

8th lunar month of 1848: premiere at the Ichimuraza of Ippô's drama "Eiri Shôsetsu Asagao Monogatari" [casting].

3rd lunar month of 1850: Ippô worked at the Kawarasakiza, along with Kawatake Shinshichi II, on the drama "Arigataya Oedo no Kagekiyo" (commonly called "Biwa no Kagekiyo"). This was Ippô last-recorded work. He went back to Ôsaka afterwards.

2nd day of the 12th lunar month of 1852 ^[1]: Ippô died in Ôsaka ^[3].

Comments:

Nishizawa Ippô was an Ôsaka sakusha, who was active from the beginning of the 1830s to the end of the 1840s. He also wrote several important theater or travel related books.

[1] The 2nd day of the 12th lunar month of the 5th year of the Kaei era was the 11th of January 1853 in the western calendar.

[2] The 6th day of the 10th lunar month of the 12th year of the Tenpô era was the 18th of November 1841 in the western calendar.

[3] His tombstone was located in the cemetery of the Dairenji temple in the district of Shimoteramachi (Ôsaka).

The name of Nishizawa Ippô in a 1834 Ôsaka hyôbanki (the zone within the red box)