Stage names:

Yamatoya Jinbê III
Yamatoya Tôkichi

Guild: Yamatoya

Line number: SANDAIME (III)

Existence: ??? ~ ???

Connections:

Father: Yamatoya Jinbê II

Elder brother: Yamatoya Jinnosuke

Career:

10th lunar month of 1701: Tôkichi achieved a great success in Kyôto by playing the role of Senji in the drama "Imayô Nô Kyôgen", produced by his father Yamatoya Jinbê II for the nadai Hayagumo Chôdayû.

11th lunar month of 1701: Tôkichi became zamoto, working in Kyôto with the nadai Ebisuya Kichirôbê.

1st lunar month of 1702: Tôkichi was the kanjiku for wakashugata actors. He achieved a great success by playing in the drama "Ôtô-no-Miya Kumano Ochi".

11th lunar month of 1702: Tôkichi successfully produced the drama "Kyô Morohaku Ômu no Sakazuki" at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater.

1st lunar month of 1703: Tôkichi achieved a great success by playing the roles of Monju Tarô and Sengen Tokubê in the dramas "Miyako no Ehô" and "Keisei Mitsu no Kuruma".

1st lunar month of 1704: Tôkichi played the leading role of a sanbasô dance, which was performed in Kyôto within the hatsu kyôgen drama "Musume Chôja Hagoita no Eawase". He also performed in the ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Yuki no Shirayama" in which he used an original roppô called "bikko roppô" ("a walk-with-a-limp roppô").

10th day of the 1st lunar month of 1704 ^[1]: his father Yamatoya Jinbê II died.

10th lunar month of 1704: Yamatoya Tôkichi took the name of Yamatoya Jinbê III in Kyôto.

11th lunar month of 1704: Jinbê achieved a great success by performing some unusual roppô in the drama "Futatsu no Ôgi", which was staged in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater.

1705 ~ 1714: his name did not appear in Kamigata major theaters' banzuke.

11th lunar month of 1715: Jinbê was back on stage in Kyôto, as an actor and a zamoto working with the nadai Hoteiya Umenojô. He successfully produced the kaomise drama "Manpô Chitose no Matsu", which included a kôjô commemorating the sudden death of Kataoka Nizaemon I (the speech was done by Shinozuka Jirozaemon I).

11th lunar month of 1716: Jinbê produced in Kyôto at Hoteiya Umenojô's theater the kaomise drama "Daikoku Tenjin Fukuju Musume", in which he played the role of Biwanosuke.

1st lunar month of 1717: Jinbê appeared on stage for the last time, in Kyôto, playing the role of Seijirô in the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Asahiyama". His rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual].

1734: Jinbê's name appeared in the banzuke of a Kabuki program which was produced by Onogawa Sennosuke in Nagoya in the precinct of the Seijuin temple.

1st lunar month of 1735: Jinbê's name appeared in the Kyôto hyôbanki; the comment was "Yamatoya Jinbê, a name we remember with nostalgia".

Comments:

Yamatoya Jinbê III was a talented wakashugata and tachiyaku actor, who spent most of his career in Kyôto. His fields of excellence were wagoto and nuregoto. He was also Yamatoya Jinbê II's worthy heir in the use of roppô.

[1] The 10th day of the 1st lunar month of the 17th year of the Genroku era was the 14th of February 1704 in the western calendar.

Yamatoya Jinbê III playing the role of Biwanosuke in the kaomise drama "Daikoku Tenjin Fukuju Musume", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1716 in Kyôto

The Yamatoya Jinbê line of actors and theater managers