Pen name:

Sakakiyama Kansuke I

Stage names:

Sakakiyama Kansuke I
Miyazaki Seikichi

Existence: ???

Connection:

Father: Miyazaki Denkichi

Master: Sakakiyama Koshirô I

Career:

Before 1680: born in Kamigata. Son of Miyazaki Denkichi.

1680s ~ 1710: he settled with his father in Edo where he started during the first half of the 1690s his career performing on stage as a wakashugata named Miyazaki Seikichi.

Fall 1710: he went back to Kamigata with his father. He became a disciple of Sakakiyama Koshirô I, received the name of Sakakiyama Kansuke I and worked both as an actor and a sakusha.

11th lunar month of 1712: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Hoteiya Umenojô's theater on the kaomise drama "Manpô Jumyôgura", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I and starred Osagawa Jûemon, Yoshizawa Ayame I, Bandô Hikosaburô I, Fujikawa Buzaemon I, Sakakiyama Koshirô I, Yamamoto Kamon and Murayama Heijûrô II.

11th lunar month of 1713: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater on the kaomise drama "Eitai Kogane no Ichigura", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

11th lunar month of 1714: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater on the kaomise drama "Azuma-zukuri Ôdaidokoro", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

1st lunar month of 1715: Kansuke worked in the same theater on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Kinbusen".

11th lunar month of 1715: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater on the kaomise drama "Naniwa Banashi Ichiji no Yume", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

1st lunar month of 1716: Kansuke worked in the same theater on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Kinryûzan", in which he played the role of Taiko Shigokurô.

11th lunar month of 1716: Kansuke worked with Sadoshima Saburôzaemon in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater on the kaomise drama "Eboshidakara Mangoku no Kaname", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

11th lunar month of 1717: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater on the kaomise drama "Ômu Gaeshi Momotose Gitsune", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

11th lunar month of 1718: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater on the kaomise drama "Chôseiden Kogane no Ishizue", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

11th lunar month of 1719: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Ebisuya Kichirôbê's theater on the kaomise drama "Hôraisan Hiyoku no Tsurukame", which was produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I and in which he played the role of the yakko Yumesuke.

1st lunar month of 1720: Kansuke worked in the same theater on the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Mizoro-ga-Ike", in which he played the role of Ageya.

11th lunar month of 1721: Kansuke worked in Kyôto at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater on the kaomise drama "Fuji Asama Taiheiraku", which was produced by Matsumoto Shigemaki and Wakaura Kinjûrô.

1724: Kansuke stopped working as a sakusha and worked only as a dôkegata.

11th lunar month of 1724: Kansuke played in Ôsaka at the Ônishi no Shibai the role of Sagihei in the kaomise drama "Senbon Matsu Hi-no-De no Maizuru", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I and Sawamura Kiyojûrô.

11th lunar month of 1725: Kansuke played at the Ônishi no Shibai the role of the yakko Ippei in kaomise drama "Gokoku Jôju Naniwa no Yakata", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I.

1st lunar month of 1726: Kansuke's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, dôkegata section, is jô-(shiro)jô (superior - (white) superior) [visual].

2nd lunar month of 1726: Kansuke performed in the same theater in the drama "Sankô Taiheiki". No record afterwards.

Comments:

Sakakiyama Kansuke I was both an actor and a sakusha. He was the sakusha of the Sakakiyama clan during the 1710s in Kyôto. He was a dôkegata in his latter years.

The name of Sakakiyama Kansuke I in the 1723 Kyôto hyôbanki (the name within the red box)

Prints & Illustrations

The Sakakiyama Kansuke line of playwrights