Stage names:

Sengoku Hikosuke I
Sengoku Hikogorô

Guild: Shôgatsuya

Line number: SHODAI (I)

Existence: 1684 ~ 26th day of the 4th lunar month of 1740

Connection:

Master: Nakamura Shichisaburô I

Son: Nakamura Sukegorô I

Grandson: Nakamura Sukegorô II

Disciple: Sengoku Hikojûrô

Career:

1684 ~ 1691: he starts his career at an early age, as a disciple of Nakamura Shichisaburô I, who gives him the name of Sengoku Hikosuke.

Summer 1691: some trouble in his Edo theater leads him to go to Kyôto.

9th lunar month of 1691: Hikosuke performs as a dôkegata at Miyako Mandayû's theater in Kyôto.

5th lunar month of 1699: Hikosuke goes back to Edo to perform at the Nakamuraza and changes the way to write his first name:

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1st lunar month of 1703: Hikosuke plays at the Yamamuraza the role of Daitônai in the new year drama "Keisei Asama Soga"; he changes the way to write his family name:

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3rd day of the 2nd lunar month of 1708: his master Nakamura Shichisaburô I dies.

1st lunar month of 1713: Hikosuke's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, dôkegata section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1714: Hikosuke plays at the Moritaza the role of Gontarô in the kaomise drama "Onna Ryûko Futatsu Gashira".

11th lunar month of 1715: Hikosuke plays at the Moritaza the role of Higashiyama Yoshimasa in Mitsushima Shichirôzaemon's drama "Hayazaki Onna Shimabara".

11th lunar month of 1717: Hikosuke plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Sano Genzaemon Tsuneyo in the kaomise drama "Hachinoki Hônen Mitsugimono".

Fall 1721: Hikosuke goes to Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1721: he becomes tachiyaku, takes the name of Sengoku Hikogorô and plays at the Kado no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Kogane no Shachihoko".

1st lunar month of 1722: Hikosuke's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

Fall 1723: he goes back to Edo.

11th lunar month of 1723: he takes back the name of Sengoku Hikosuke I, playing as a dôkegata at the Moritaza the role of Natorigawa Mikinojô in the kaomise drama "Yorimasa Kaikeizan".

1st lunar month of 1724: Hikosuke's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, dôkegata section, is back to jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).

26th day of the 4th lunar month of 1740: Hikosuke dies in Edo; his tombstone is located in the cemetery of the Zen'ôin temple, a subtemple of the famous Jôshinji, in the district of Hirano.

Comments:

Sengoku Hikosuke I was a popular 18th century actor, who was considered as the first Edo dôkegata.

Sengoku Hikosuke I climbing a wall in a revenge play (1711)