| NAMIE KOKAN |
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| Namie Kokan I | |
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The actor Namie Kokan I held this name from 1680 to 1687. |
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Matsumoto Hyôzô (left panel/top/1st from left), Namie Kokan I (left panel/top/2nd from left), Ôyama Giemon (left panel/center), Takeshima Kôzaemon I (left panel/bottom/2nd from right) and Ichimura Shirôji (left panel/bottom/1st from right) on the stage of an Ôsaka theater in the 11th lunar month of 1686 (illustration from the 1686 hyôbanki "Naniwa Tachigiki Mukashi Banashi") |
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| Namie Kokan II Namie Kokan II  |
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Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Namie Kokan I, he took the name of Namie Kokan II in 1688. He worked as a zamoto in Ôsaka in the 1st lunar month of 1690, coproducing with Ichikawa Kaoru the new year drama "Tajimaya Onatsu Seijûrô Sanjûsannenki". He performed in Kyôto in 1691 and in Edo in 1694. His rank in the 1695 Ôsaka hyôbanki, wakaonnagata section, was naka (literally "middle"). This wakaonnagata actor was active up to 1697. |
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The name of Namie Kokan II (in the red box) and his mon (in the blue box) in the hyôbanki "Yakusha Ôkagami Gassai" (1692) |
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