LESSER KNOWN ACTORS - MURAYAMA
   
Murayama Jûrobê
Murayama Jûrobê  In Japanese | Murayama Shinzaemon  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. His first stage name was Murayama Shinzaemon. He was recorded for the first time in the 11th lunar month of 1706 in Edo at the Ichimuraza when he performed as a tachiyaku in the kaomise drama "Mano no Chôja Kogane no Torii". Was he related to the Edo Murayama Clan which was created by Murayama Matasaburô I? The question is still unanswered. He became katakiyaku the following year and performed in the 11th lunar month of 1707 at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Hachinoki Ôkagami". He went to Ôsaka during the winter of 1711 and took the name of Murayama Jûrobê, switching back to tachiyaku and playing the role of Zensanta in the new year drama "Otogi Jûnidan". He went to Kyôto in Fall 1711 and performed in the 11th lunar month of 1711 at Fujita Magojûrô's theater in the kaomise drama "Hinode Chôja", which was produced by Nakamura Shirôji. He went back to Ôsaka in Fall 1713 and performed in the 11th lunar month of 1713 in Azuma Sanpachi's kaomise drama "Onna Fude Yôbunshô", which was produced by Arashi San'emon III and Ogino Yaegiri I. He performed in the 11th lunar month of 1715 in the kaomise drama "Ugashin Kogane no Hokora", which was produced in Ôsaka by Sawamura Chôjûrô I and celebrated the shûmei of Takeshima Kôzaemon II. His rank in the 1716 Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-(shiro)jô (superior - (white) superior) [visual]. He died in 1716.

Murayama Jûrobê playing the role of Hamagurigai no Sabu in the kaomise drama "(Jingô Kôgô Sankan Taiji) Ashiwakebune", which was staged in Ôsaka in the 1st lunar month of 1715

Murayama Shirojûrô  
Murayama Shirojûrô  In Japanese | Imamura Shirojûrô  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. His first stage name was Imamura Shirojûrô. Unknown relationship to the Imamura Clan. He was recorded for the first time in the 11th lunar month of 1725, in Kyôto, where he performed as a tachiyaku in the kaomise drama "Sanpukutsui Eiga no Shikishi", which was produced by Mihogi Gizaemon I. He settled in Ôsaka in Fall 1727 and he performed in the 11th lunar month of 1727 at the Ônishi no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Watamashi Yatsumune Gura", which was produced by Sawamura Otoemon I. He became katakiyaku and took the name of Murayama Shirojûrô in the 11th lunar month of 1730, performing in the kaomise drama "Kunkoku Ôe no Kôbai", which was produced by Asao Motogorô I. From the first half of the 1730s, he performed in tabi shibai. He was back in ôshibai in Fall 1745, performing as a tachiyaku in the 11th lunar month of 1745 in Ôsaka at the Naka no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Onna Musha Ukisu Gassen", which was produced by Ichiyama Sukegorô I. Shirojûrô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki [1], tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-(shiro)hankichi (superior - superior - (white) half excellent) [visual]. He was recorded for the last time in the 2nd lunar month of 1746, in the same theater, where he played the roles of Ki no Aritsune, the sumôtori Niô Saburô and Minbu Tarô in the new year ni-no-kawari drama "Shima Moyô Chidori Gassen". Shirojûrô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki [2], tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual]. No record afterwards.

Murayama Shirojûrô playing the role of Fujimura Unai in the kaomise drama "Onna Musha Ukisu Gassen", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1745 at the Naka no Shibai

Murayama Shirotarô
Murayama Shirotarô  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. Son of Murayama Shirôji, he received the name of Murayama Shirotarô and was recorded in the 1st lunar month of 1693 in the book "Kokon Shibai Irokurabe Hyakunin Isshu". No record afterwards.

Murayama Shirotarô in an ilustration from the book "Hana no Edo Kabuki Nendaiki"

Ilustration (1693)

 

Notes

[1] Published in the 1st lunar month of 1746.

[2] Published in the 3rd lunar month of 1746.

 
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