LESSER KNOWN ACTORS - SAKAKIYAMA
   
Sakakiyama Fujisaburô
Sakakiyama Fujisaburô  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. He was the nephew of Sakakiyama Koshirô I. He became a disciple of his uncle and started his career as a koyaku, performing from the 1st lunar month of 1713 in Kyôto. His stage name was Sakakiyama Fujisaburô. He became wakashugata in the 11th lunar month of 1713, performing in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Eitai Kogane no Ichigura", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I. He became wakaonnagata in the 11th lunar month of 1721, playing the role of Princess Kiyo in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Fuji Asama Taiheiraku", which was coproduced by Wakaura Kinjûrô and Matsumoto Shigemaki. He went to Ôsaka in Fall 1723. He became tachiyaku in the 11th lunar month of 1723, playing at the Ônishi no Shibai the role of the wakadono Kokonoe Kyôtarô in the kaomise drama "Fukujukai Kogane no Minato", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I. He joined travelling troupes (tabi shibai) for several years. He was back in Kyôto in Fall 1730. He became katakiyaku in the 11th lunar month of 1730, performing in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater in the kaomise drama "Eiraku Shiki no Kogane", which was produced by Sakakiyama Shirotarô I. He was recorded as performing in Nagoya in 1732 and 1733. No record afterwards.

Sakakiyama Fujisaburô (left) and Yoshizawa Tamazuma (right) playing the roles of a man disguised as Kuranosuke and Omiki in the kaomise drama "Eiraku Shiki no Kogane", which was staged in Kyôto in the 11th lunar month of 1730 in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater

Sakakiyama Onojûrô
Sakakiyama Onojûrô  In Japanese | Sakakiyama Onosaburô  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Sakakiyama Koshirô I, his first stage name was Sakakiyama Onosaburô and he was recorded as performing as a wakaonnagata in the 1st lunar month of 1708 in Kyôto. He played the role of a kamuro in the 1st lunar month of 1710 in Kyôto in the new year ni-no-kawari "Keisei Shijûhachi Taka". He performed as a wakashugata in the 1st lunar month of 1712 in Kyôto. He became tachiyaku and took the name of Sakakiyama Onojûrô in Kyôto in the 11th lunar month of 1717 in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Genjôraku Biwa no Ôumi", which was produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I. No record afterwards.

Sakakiyama Sengiku
Sakakiyama Sengiku  In Japanese | Sakakiyama Tokujirô  In Japanese | Sanjô Tokujirô  In Japanese
 

Born in 1748. Disciple of Sanjô Namie I, his first stage name was Sanjô Tokujirô. He became disciple of Sakakiyama Koshirô II and received the name of Sakakiyama Tokujirô in 1761. He became wakaonnagata in Kyôto in 1764 and took the name of Sakakiyama Sengiku in 11th lunar month of 1764 in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai, performing in Namiki Shôzô I's kaomise drama "Genpei Tsûrikimaru" which celebrated the shûmei of Iwai Hanshirô. He settled in Ôsaka in 1770. He played in the 11th lunar month of 1771 at the Naka no Shibai the role of the keisei Ukifune in the kaomise drama "Temomutsumajiya Ryûgû no Shimadai", which celebrated the shûmei of Ichikawa Otojûrô, Arashi Bungorô I and Arashi Shichisaburô II. This was his last-recorded appearance on stage. He died the 5th day of the 1st lunar month of 1772 [1].

Sakakiyama Sengiku playing the role of the keisei Ukifune in the kaomise drama "Temomutsumajiya Ryûgû no Shimadai", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1771 at the Naka no Shibai

Sakakiyama Shirojûrô
Sakakiyama Shirojûrô  In Japanese
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Sakakiyama Koshirô I, he became zamoto and produced in the 11th lunar month of 1719 in Kyôto the kaomise drama "Chiyo no Ume Naniwa Kagami", in which he performed as a wakashugata. He played in the 1st lunar month of 1723 in Kyôto the role of the page Uneme in the new year ni-no-kawari "Keisei Furisodeyama". His rank in the 1723 Kyôto hyôbanki, wakashugata section, was (superior) [visual]. No record afterwards.

Sakakiyama Shirojûrô playing the role of Mikuranosuke in Sakakiyama Kansuke I's kaomise drama "Senbon Matsu Tokiwa Yakata", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1722 in Kyôto

 

Notes

[1] The 5th day of the 1st lunar month of the 9th year of the Meiwa era was the 8th of February 1772 in the western calendar.

 
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