Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Onoe Kikugorô III, he was recorded for the first time in the 11th lunar month of 1826, in Edo at the Miyakoza, where he worked, along with Tsuruya Nanboku IV, Shinoda Kinji I and Matsui Kôzô II, on the kaomise drama "Muro no Ume Hôgan Biiki" ^[1], which celebrated the shûmei of the minor actors Arashi Sanpachi II, Matsumoto Kingo I and Onoe Kôzô I. He worked in Kamigata in 1818 and went back to Edo in the summer of 1819. He became nimaime sakusha in the 11th lunar month of 1820, when he worked at the Kawarasakiza, under the command of the tatesakusha Tsuruya Nanboku IV, on the kaomise drama "Ise Heiji Ume no Mitegura", which celebrated the shûmei of Onoe Tamizô II, Ôtani Monzô II and Iwai Kiyotarô IV. He most likely died in 1824.

Dates of birth and death unknown. Disciple of Onoe Kikugorô III, his first pen name was Oto Usuke II and he was recorded for the first time in the 11th lunar month of 1826, in Edo at the Nakamuraza, where he worked along with Tsuruya Nanboku IV, Katsui Genpachi, Matsui Kôzô II and Matsuchi Shôkichi, on the kaomise drama "Kaeribana Genji no Kachidoki". He went to Kamigata with his master in Fall 1829 and worked at the Minamigawa no Shibai on the kaomise drama "Meiboku Sendai Hagi". He went back to Edo with his master in Fall 1831. During the 1840s, he worked as chômoto under the name of Sawadaya Wasuke. He went to Kamigata in Fall 1851 and worked in Kyôto at the Minamigawa no Shibai, along with Nagawa Masasuke, Nagawa Kakizô and Narita Torasuke, on the kaomise drama "Ishikawa-zome" He took the name of Oto Wasuke in 1861. No record afterwards.