Stage name:

Nakajima Saburoshirô

Existence: ???

Activity: 1693 ~ 1735

Connection:

Father: Abura Kanroku

Brother: Nakajima Kanzaemon I

Career:

1693: Saburoshirô was recorded for the first time in an Edo hyôbanki.

11th lunar month of 1694: Saburoshirô performed at the Yamamuraza in the drama "Kinpira Kadan Yaburi".

11th lunar month of 1701: Saburoshirô performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Keisei Ikazuchi Mondô".

11th lunar month of 1709: Saburoshirô performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Imagawajô Ryôshun Katoku".

22nd day of the 4th lunar month of 1716 ^[1]: his elder brother Nakajima Kanzaemon I died in Edo.

11th lunar month of 1717: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Takenori in the kaomise drama "Kinkazan Yoroi Biraki".

11th lunar month of 1718: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Ôta Banzaemon in the kaomise drama "Gozen Nô Mitsu Uroko", which celebrated the arrival in Edo of the Kamigata actor Onoe Samon.

11th lunar month of 1719: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Taira no Tokikuni in the kaomise drama "Tategami Teika Kazura", which celebrated the shûmei of Tsuruya Nanboku I and Nanboku Magotarô II.

11th lunar month of 1720: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Hyûga no Zenji Hisakuni in the kaomise drama "Kodakara Imagawajô", which celebrated the shûmei of Yamanaka Takejûrô.

1st lunar month of 1721: Saburoshirô played in the same theater the role of Kyô no Jirô in the new year sogamono "Tsurukame Wakayagi Soga".

11th lunar month of 1723: Saburoshirô played at the Moritaza the role of Ecchû no Zenji in the kaomise drama "Yorimasa Kaikeizan".

11th lunar month of 1724: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Ujiie Nakatsukasa in the kaomise drama "Bankoku Taiheiki", which welcomed in Edo the Kamigata actor Matsushima Hyôtarô; his stage partners were Ichikawa Danzô I, Tomizawa Hanzaburô I, Ogino Izaburô I, Ogawa Zengorô I, Sodesaki Miwano I, Mimasuya Sukejûrô I, Fujimura Handayû II, Nakajima Mihoemon I and Nakamura Kichibê I.

11th lunar month of 1725: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Hayahiro in the kaomise drama "Semimaru Onna Moyô".

1st lunar month of 1726: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô-hankichi (superior - superior - half excellent) [visual]. He performed in the same theater in the new year drama "Niwatori Ôshû Genji".

11th lunar month of 1726: Saburoshirô was recorded as tôdori at the Ichimuraza but he did not perform any role in the kaomise program.

11th lunar month of 1727: Saburoshirô was recorded as tôdori at the Ichimuraza but he did not perform any role in the kaomise program.

11th lunar month of 1728: Saburoshirô played at the Ichimuraza the role of Ashikaga Tadayoshi in the kaomise drama "Kikusui Yoshino no Dairi".

1st lunar month of 1729: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, fell to jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual]. He also played the role of Kajiwara Genta Kagesue in the new year sogamono drama "Mayuzumi Yôrô Soga".

11th lunar month of 1729: Saburoshirô performed in Edo at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Chôseiden Shiraga Kintoki".

1st lunar month of 1730: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual]. He was also recorded as working as a tôdori at the Ichimuraza. Most likely his last appearance on stage.

11th lunar month of 1732: Saburoshirô was recorded as a tôdori at the Ichimuraza but he did not perform any role in the kaomise program.

1st lunar month of 1733: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô-hankichi (superior - superior - half excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1733: Saburoshirô was recorded as a tôdori at the Ichimuraza but he did not perform any role in the kaomise program.

1st lunar month of 1734: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1734: Saburoshirô was recorded as a tôdori at the Ichimuraza but he did not perform any role in the kaomise program.

1st lunar month of 1735: Saburoshirô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, katakiyaku section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual]. No record afterwards.

Comments:

Nakajima Saburoshirô was an Edo katakiyaku actor who was active from the first half of the 1690s to the end of the 1720s. In his latter years, he stopped acting and worked as a tôdori at the Ichimuraza.

[1] The 22nd day of the 4th lunar month of the 6th year of the Shôtoku era was the 11th of June 1716 in the western calendar.

Nakajima Saburoshirô (left), Matsumoto Kôshirô I (center) and Sodesaki Miwano I (right) playing the roles of Taira no Tokikuni, Ôe no Saemon and Kiku-no-Mae in the kaomise drama "Tategami Teika Kazura", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1719 at the Ichimuraza