Stage names:

Nakamura Tomitaki
Onoe Kikujirô I
Ichikawa Takisaburô
Ichikawa Terunosuke

Guilds: Otowaya, Miyoshiya

Poetry names: Senji, Senchô

Existence: ??? ~ 1834

Connections:

Masters: Nakamura Utaemon III, Onoe Kikugorô III, Ichikawa Omezô I, Ichikawa Aragorô I

Career:

1800s: disciple of Ichikawa Aragorô I; his first stage name is Ichikawa Terunosuke.

11th lunar month of 1809: he becomes wakaonnagata and performs at the Ichimuraza in Tsuruya Nanboku IV's drama "Misao no Hana Toba no Koizuka".

1812: he becomes a disciple of Ichikawa Omezô I.

11th lunar month of 1812: he receives the name of Ichikawa Takisaburô and performs at the Ichimuraza in the drama "Gohiiki Megumi no Amagoi".

Summer 1820: Takisaburô goes on tour with Onoe Kikugorô III in Kamigata.

Fall 1820: Takisaburô goes back to Edo.

11th lunar month of 1820: Takisaburô plays at the Kawarasakiza the role of Hatsuse in the drama "Ise Heiji Ume no Mitegura", which celebrates the shûmei of Onoe Tamizô II, Ôtani Monzô II and Iwai Kiyotarô IV.

9th lunar month of 1821: premiere at the Kawarasakiza of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's drama "Kiku no En Tsuki no Shiranami"; Takisaburô plays the role of the En'ya koshimoto Ukihashi (later the geisha Okyô) [more details].

Fall 1822: he becomes a disciple of the star Onoe Kikugorô III.

11th lunar month of 1822: he takes the name of Onoe Kikujirô I at the Ichimuraza, playing the roles of Princess Yaehata and the courtesan Fudeji in the drama "Gohiiki Tsuwamono no Majiwari", which welcomes back Iwai Hanshirô V in Edo and celebrates the shûmei of Nakayama Kinsha.

1st lunar month of 1823: premiere at the Ichimuraza of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's new year sogamono drama "Yaegasumi Soga no Kumiito"; Kikujirô plays the roles of the shukuba geisha izayoi, Okyô and Yoritomo's musume Princess Ô [casting].

1st lunar month of 1825: premiere at the Nakamuraza of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's new year sogamono drama "Okuni-iri Soga Nakamura"; Kikujirô plays the roles of Danzaburô's nyôbô Izayoi and Gonpachi's sister Osai (later Miuraya Katsuyama) [casting].

7th lunar month of 1825: premiere at the Nakamuraza of Tsuruya Nanboku IV's ghost play "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan"; Kikujirô plays the role of Kobotoke Kohei's wife Kobotoke Ohana [casting].

Fall 1825: Kikujirô goes on tour with Onoe Kikugorô III in Kamigata.

11th lunar month of 1825: Kikujirô performs at the Kado no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Ume no Naniwa Hayazaki Genji", which celebrates the shûmei of Nakayama Bungorô II; his main stage partners are Onoe Kikugorô III, Fujikawa Tomokichi II, Arashi Koroku IV (who makes his last stage appearances) and Asao Kunigorô III.

1829: he becomes a disciple of Nakamura Utaemon III, who gives him the name of Nakamura Tomitaki.

Summer 1830: Tomitaki and Nakayama Tomisaburô II go together to Edo.

8th lunar month of 1830: Tomitaki plays at the Kawarasakiza, playing the roles of the shirabyôshi Yuri and the bathhouse girl Oteru in the drama "Ichikawaya Masago no Gohiiki", which celebrates the shûmei of Ichikawa Sumizô III.

11th lunar month of 1830: Tomitaki plays at the Kawarasakiza the roles of the shirabyôshi Kumagai and Shigeyori's sister Kaoru in the drama "Ichiyô Raifuku Shibuya Tsuwamono".

1st lunar month of 1831: Tomitaki's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, wakaonnagata section, is two black strokes above jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

3rd lunar month of 1832: Tomitaki plays at the Ichimuraza the roles of Onoe and Mankô in "Sumidagawa Hana no Goshozome" and "Sukeroku Yukari no Edo Zakura".

4th lunar month of 1832: Tomitaki plays in the same theater the roles of Ofude and Chidori in the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki". He also plays the role of Minato in "Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi". This is his last-recorded performance in ôshibai. He goes on tour along the Tôkaidô and we don't know what happens to him afterwards for he disappears from the records.

Comments:

Nakamura Tomitaki was an outstanding onnagata, who excelled in jidaimono dramas. All his masters were tachiyaku; two of them were among the best actors in Kabuki history (in the top 5 for the first half of the 19th century). He was outstanding in musume roles in his prime and toshima in his latter years. He most likely died in 1834.

Nakamura Tomitaki playing the role of Nitta Yoshimine in the drama "Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi", which was staged in the 5th lunar month of 1831 at the Kawarasakiza (print made by Utagawa Kunisada I)

The Onoe Kikujirô line of actors