JITSUKAWA YÛJIRÔ
   
TWO GENERATIONS
Jitsukawa Yûjirô I
 

Date of birth unknow. Adopted son of Asao Yûjirô I, his first stage names were Asao Mankichi and Asao Kaname. He took the names of Asao Yûjirô II and Jitsukawa Yûjirô I in 1827 and 1833. He temporarily took the name of Izumikawa Yûjirô in 1834 and he also took back the name of Asao Yûjirô II when he went on tour in Edo in the 5th lunar month of 1838, to perform at the Kawarasakiza up to September. He went back to Ôsaka where he took back the name of Jitsukawa Yûjirô I in 1857. This onnagata actor was active in Kamigata up to 1868, the year of his death.

Haimyô Yagô
Yûjô, Kijô Izutsuya

Jitsukawa Yûjirô I playing the role of Fuji-no-Kata in the "Kumagai Jin'ya" scene of the drama "Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki", which was staged in the 5th lunar month of 1850 at the Naka no Shibai
(print made by Utagawa Hirosada)

Jitsukawa Yûjirô II
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Jitsukawa Gakujûrô II, he held the names of Jitsukawa Kikuo, Ichikawa Ichie and Jitsukawa Yûjô at unknown times. He was adopted by Jitsukawa Yûjirô I at the end of the Edo period. His master died in 1868 and he took the name of Jitsukawa Yûjirô II in 1869. He was active as a supporting onnagata and kashagata in Kamigata during the beginning of the Meiji era.

Haimyô Yagô
Yûjô, Kijô Izutsuya

Jitsukawa Yûjirô II (first half of the 1870s)

 

Notes

[1] Three actors held the name of Asao Mankichi, Asao Tamejûrô I, Jitsukawa Gakujûrô II and Jitsukawa Yûjirô I, but it did not constitute an official line of actors.

 
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