Stage names:

Yamatoya Jimbei III
Yamatoya Tôkichi

Guild: Yamatoya

Line number: SANDAIME (III)

Existence: ??? ~ ???

Connections:

Father: Yamatoya Jimbei II

Elder brother: Yamatoya Jinnosuke

Career:

October 1701: Tôkichi achieves a great success in Kyôto by playing the role of Senji dans the drama "Imayô Nô Kyôgen", produced by his father Yamatoya Jimbei II for the nadai Hayagumo Chôdayû.

November 1701: Tôkichi becomes zamoto, working in Kyôto with the nadai Ebisuya Kichirôbei.

January 1702: Tôkichi is the kanjiku for wakashugata actors. He achieves a great success by playing in the drama "Ôtô no Miya Kumano Ochi".

November 1702: Tôkichi successfully produces the drama "Kyô Morohaku Ômu no Sakazuki" at Hayagumo Chôdayû's theater.

January 1703: Tôkichi achieves a great success by playing the roles of Monju Tarô and Sengen Tokubei in the dramas "Miyako no Ehô" and "Keisei Mitsu no Kuruma".

January 1704: Tôkichi plays the leading role of a sambasô dance, which is performed in Kyôto within the drama "Musume Chôja Hagoita no Eawase". His father Yamatoya Jimbei II dies the 10th January.

March 1704: Tôkichi plays the leading male role of the drama "Keisei Yuki no Shirayama" in which he uses an original roppô called "bikko roppô" ("a walk-with-a-limp roppô").

October 1704: Yamatoya Tôkichi takes the name of Yamatoya Jimbei III in Kyôto.

November 1704: Jimbei achieves a great success by performing some unusual roppô in the drama "Futatsu no Ôgi", which is staged in Kyôto at Kameya Kumenojô's theater.

1705 ~ 1714: his name does not appear in Kamigata major theaters' banzuke.

November 1715: Jimbei is back on stage in Kyôto, as an actor and a zamoto working with the nadai Hoteiya Umenojô. He successfully produces the kaomise drama "Manpô Chitose no Matsu", which includes a kôjô commemorating the sudden death of Kataoka Nizaemon I (the speech is done by Shinozuka Jirozaemon I).

January 1717: Jimbei appears on stage for the last time, in Kyôto, playing the role of Seijirô in the drama "Keisei Asahiyama". His rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, is jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent).

1734: Jimbei's name appears in the banzuke of a Kabuki program which is produced by Onogawa Sennosuke in Nagoya in the precinct of the Seijuin temple.

January 1735: Jimbei's name appears in the Kyôto hyôbanki; the comment is "Yamatoya Jimbei, a name we remember with nostalgia".

Comments:

Yamatoya Jimbei III was a talented wakashugata and tachiyaku actor, who spent most of his career in Kyôto. His fields of excellence were wagoto and nuregoto. He was also Yamatoya Jimbei II's worthy heir in the use of roppô.