Stage names:

Tamagawa Sennojô IV
Tamagawa Sarashi

Line number: YODAIME (IV)

Existence: ???

Connection:

Master: Tamagawa Sennojô III

Disciple: Tamagawa Fujinosuke

Career:

1680s: a relative of late Tamagawa Sennojô II. He starts his career in Edo around 1685 as a disciple of Tamagawa Sennojô III, performing under the name of Tamagawa Sarashi.

1692: Tamagawa Sarashi takes the name of Tamagawa Sennojô IV.

1st lunar month of 1699: Sennojô settles in Kyôto, where he becomes kashagata.

11th lunar month of 1704: Sennojô plays in Kyôto at Miyako Mandayû's theater the role of Uga-no-Tsubone in Chikamatsu Monzaemon's drama "Kisshô Tennyo Anzan no Tama".

3rd lunar month of 1711: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, is jô-(shiro)jô (superior - (white) superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1712: Sennojô plays in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Banbanzai".

1st lunar month of 1713: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1716: Sennojô plays in Kyôto the role of Tawara no Tôta's widow in the kaomise drama "Tatsu no Miyako Ikuyo no Yonedawara", which is produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I.

1st lunar month of 1717: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, falls to jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1717: Sennojô plays in Kyôto in the kaomise drama "Genjôraku Biwa no Ôumi", which is produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I.

11th lunar month of 1718: Sennojô plays in Kyôto the role of Hanazono's okugata (and kôshitsu) in Adachi Saburôzaemon's kaomise drama "Shiga no Miyako Kogane no Hanazono", which is produced by Yamatoyama Jinzaemon I for the nadai Ebisuya Kichirôbê.

1st lunar month of 1723: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual]. He shares the same rank with Tamekawa Kohyôe.

1st lunar month of 1724: Sennojô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, kashagata section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual]. He shares the same rank with Ichikawa Toyama III. He plays at Miyako Mandayû's theater in the new year drama "Keisei Futakamiyama", which is produced by Segawa Kikunojô I. This is his last recorded performance on a Kabuki stage. We don't know what happens to him afterwards for he disappeared from the records.

Comments:

Tamagawa Sennojô IV was born and trained in Edo as an onnagata, performing hime or musume roles during the 1680s and the 1690s. He went to Kyôto in 1699 to become a successful kashagata actor. He was active in the Imperial City up to the midle of the 1720s.

Tamagawa Sennojô IV

Prints & Illustrations

The Tamagawa Sennojô line of actors