FIVE GENERATIONS
Fujikawa Hachizô I
 

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô I held this name from November 1752 to December 1777.

Fujikawa Hachizô I (in the center of the image, holding somebody with the left hand) playing the role of the boatman Matsuemon, in reality the warrior Higuchi no Jirô Kanemitsu, in the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki", which was staged in December 1766 at the Kado no Shibai
His stage partners are Kasaya Matazô (bottom/left), Yamashita Shingorô (bottom/right), Yoshizawa Ayame III (top/right), Kirinoya Gonjûrô III (top/center) and Matsuyama Sanjûrô (top/left)

Fujikawa Hachizô II
 

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô II held this name from April 1778 to March 1787.

Fujikawa Hachizô II playing the role of Nuregami Chôgorô in the "Komeya" scene of the drama "Futatsu Chôchô Kuruwa Nikki", which was staged in Kyôto in May 1782

Fujikawa Hachizô III
 

The actor Fujikawa Hachizô III held this name from November 1795 to May 1805.

Fujikawa Hachizô 3.5
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. An actor Kamigata holding the name of Fujikawa Hachizô performed in Edo at the end of the 1820s. He played the roles of Konishi Danjô Sukeemon and Taira no Motomori in the drama "Mitsugi no Yuki Genji Hiiki", which was staged in November 1828 at the Ichimuraza. His yearly salary for this new season in Edo was 200 ryô. No records of stage performances after 1829. He was never acknowledged as an official member of the line.

Fujikawa Hachizô IV
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. He started his career as a disciple of Fujikawa Tomokichi II, who gave him the name of Fujikawa Hachitarô III. He took the name of Fujikawa Happo in November 1839 in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai. Happo was the haimyô of Fujikawa Hachizô I, Fujikawa Hachizô II and Fujikawa Hachizô III. He was finally allowed to take the name of Fujikawa Hachizô IV in Ôsaka in 1842 and held it up to the end of the 1860s. He did not achieve any fame for himself in ôshibai.

It is worthy to note that he was considered on some documents as the sixth Fujikawa Hachizô. However, he is referenced as the fourth Fujikawa Hachizô in Nojima Jusaburô's "Kabuki Jinmei Jiten" and in "Kabuki Haiyû Meiseki Benran", the two major works referencing the actors lines.

Haimyô Yagô
Happo Ôzakaya

Fujikawa Hachizô IV during his shûmei in Ôsaka in 1842
From a surimono made by Matsukawa Hanzan, which is courtesy of Rolf Degener Gallery

Fujikawa Hachizô V
 

The actor Fujikawa Buzaemon IV held the name of Fujikawa Hachizô V from May 1958 to 1973.

This actor considered himself as being the 7th Fujikawa Hachizô, not the 5th.

 
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