Stage names:

Ôkawa Sanchô
Onoe Matsusuke III
Onoe Eizaburô II

Other name: Onoe Chôtarô

Guild: Otowaya

Line number: SANDAIME (III)

Poetry name: Sanchô

Existence: 1805 ~ 2 July 1851

Connections:

Father: Onoe Kikugorô III

Brothers: Onoe Eizaburô IV, Onoe Kikunosuke

Career:

1805: born in Edo.

November 1809: he makes his first stage appearance at the Ichimuraza, receiving the name of Onoe Eizaburô II during the great shûmei of Onoe Matsusuke I and Onoe Eizaburô I, who take the respective names of Onoe Shôroku I and Onoe Matsusuke II.

November 1814: Onoe Matsusuke II and Onoe Eizaburô II take the respective names of Onoe Baikô III and Onoe Matsusuke III at the Nakamuraza, playing together in the drama "Ninin Muko Mikurai Sadame".

July 1815: premiere at the Kawarazakiza of Tsuruya Namboku IV's drama "Haji Momiji Ase no Kaomise" (commonly called "Date no Jûyaku"); Matsusuke plays the role of Watanabe Mimbunosuke [casting].

July 1825: Matsusuke plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Ôboshi Rikiya in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura".

July 1825: premiere at the Nakamuraza of Tsuruya Namboku IV's ghost play "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan"; Matsusuke plays the role of Okuda Shôzaburô [casting].

April 1848: Onoe Kikugorô III and Onoe Matsusuke III take the respective names of Ôkawa Hashizô I and Ôkawa Sanchô.

August 1848: tour in Nagoya; he settles in Ôsaka with his father.

April 1849: his father Ôkawa Hashizô I dies on the way back to Edo.

May 1851: Ôkawa Sanchô takes back the name of Onoe Matsusuke III and plays at the Kawarazakiza the role of Kohei in the drama "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan", which commemorates the 2nd anniversary (3rd memorial service) of the death of Onoe Kikugorô III.

Comments:

Onoe Matsusuke III was a tachiyaku, who was the son of a Kabuki giant but made an average career in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Onoe Matsusuke III playing the role of Kokingo in the classic "Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura" (print made by Utagawa Kunisada I)

Print made by Utagawa Kunisada in 1831

The Onoe Eizaburô line of actors

The Onoe Matsusuke line of actors