NAKAYAMA ITTOKU
   
FOUR GENERATIONS
Nakayama Ittoku I
 

The actor Nakayama Yoshio I held the name of Nakayama Ittoku I from the 1780s to the 7th lunar month of 1804.

Nakayama Ittoku II
 

The actor Nakayama Nanshi II held the name of Nakayama Ittoku II from 1815 to the 12th lunar month of 1837.

Nakayama Ittoku II playing the role of Ofude in the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki", which was staged in the 5th lunar month of 1829 at the Naka no Shibai

Nakayama Ittoku III
Nakayama Ittoku III  In Japanese | Nakayama Yoshio II  In Japanese | Nakayama Yoshinosuke  In Japanese
 

Date of birth unknown. Son of Nakayama Yoshio I, he started his career in Ôsaka in the 11th lunar month of 1809, performing as a koyaku under the name of Nakayama Yoshinosuke. He took the name of Nakayama Yoshio II in the 2nd lunar month of 1818, after the death of his father. The actors Nakayama Nanshi II and Nakayama Yoshio II respectively took the names of Nakayama Yoshio III and Nakayama Ittoku III in the 1st lunar month of 1838 in Ôsaka at the Kado no Shibai, playing together in the new year drama "Keisei Sato no Funauta". Nakayama Ittoku III was just like his father an onnagata actor, but never achieved significant fame as his father did. He spent most of his career from the end of the 1830s in Kamigata koshibai. He most likely died in 1862.

Haimyô Yagô
Risei Daikokuya

Nakayama Ittoku III performing in the new year drama "Keisei Sato no Funauta", which was staged in the 1st lunar month of 1838 at the Kado no Shibai

Nakayama Ittoku IV
 

The actor Kawarasaki Kunitarô III held the name of Nakayama Ittoku IV from the beginning of the Meiji era to August 1878.

 
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