Stage names:
Ogino Senjo
Fujikawa Tomokichi III
Fujikawa Kankichi I
Fujikawa Kayû III
Fujikawa Katsusaburô I
Nickname: Kanayabashi no Tayû (the master of Kanayabashi)
Guild: Edoya
Poetry names: Kayû, Senjo
Existence: ??? ~ 11 August 1871
Connections:
Father: Fujikawa Tomokichi II
Son: Fujikawa Tomokichi IV
Career:
June 1840: Kayû plays at the Sakai Shinchi no Shibai (Ôsaka) role of Chidori in the drama "Heike Nyogo-ga-Shima". His stage partners are Ichikawa Danzô V (Shunkan), Nakamura Shikan III (Tanzaemon Motoyasu) and Arashi Rikaku II (Fujiwara Naritsune).
May 1844: Kayû plays at the Minamigawa no Shibai the role of the courtesan Yûgiri in the drama "Kuruwa Bunshô". The role of Fujiya Izaemon is played by Arashi Rikaku II. Kayû also plays the role of Osato in the classic "Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura".
Fall 1845: Kayû goes to Edo.
November 1845: Kayû plays at the Ichimuraza in the drama "Kaikei Shinoda Yukibune no Shirabe".
November 1848: Kayû plays at the Ichimuraza in the drama "Goban Tadanobu Yuki no Kuroishi".
1849 ~ 1852: Fujikawa Kayû III takes the name of Fujikawa Kankichi I at an unknown date.
January 1853: he goes back to Ôsaka and takes the name of Fujikawa Tomokichi III at the Kado no Shibai, playing the role of Princess Maizuru in the drama "Kagekiyo Soga Nigiwai Fujin", which celebrates also the shûmei of Nakamura Kanjaku II.
April 1856: tour in Ise; Tomokichi plays at the Naka-no-Jizô no Shibai the role of Chidori in the drama "Heike Nyogo-ga-Shima". His stage partners are Ichikawa Danzô VI (Shunkan) and Nakayama Ichizô (Senoo Jûrô).
June 1856: tour in Nagoya; Tomokichi plays at the Wakamiya no Shibai the role of Chidori in the drama "Heike Nyogo-ga-Shima". His stage partners are Ichikawa Danzô VI (Shunkan) and Nakayama Ichizô (Senoo Jûrô).
October 1857: Tomokichi plays at the Chikugo no Shibai the role of the courtesan Miyagino in the drama "Go Taiheiki Shiraishi Banashi".
February 1859: tour in Nagoya; Tomokichi plays the role of Temmaya Ohatsu in the drama "Sonezaki Shinjû", which is staged in the precincts of the Seijuin Temple. The role of Hiranoya Tokubei is played by Onoe Shôroku.
August 1859: Tomokichi plays at the Chikugo no Shibai the role of Chidori in the drama "Heike Nyogo-ga-Shima". His stage partners are Arashi Sankô, Nakamura Tamashichi, Nakamura Komanosuke, Asao Daikichi and Ichikawa Minosuke.
August 1860: Tomokichi plays at the Chikugo no Shibai the role of Osode in the drama "Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan".
May 1861: Tomokichi plays at the Minamigawa no Shibai the role of the courtesan Ohatsu in the drama "Sonezaki Shinjû"; the role of Hiranoya Tokubei is played by Jitsukawa Enzaburô I.
December 1862: Fujikawa Tomokichi III takes the name of Ogino Senjo at the Kita-Shinchi no Shibai (Ôsaka), playing the roles of Otowa and Koharu in the dramas "Sekitori Senryô Nobori" and "Shinjû Ten no Amijima".
January 1863: Senjo's rank in the Kamigata hyôbanki, wakaonnagata section, is shi-jô-jô-kichi (unique - superior - superior - excellent).
October 1863: Senjo plays at the Naka no Shibai the role of Sagami in the drama "Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki".
September 1864: Senjo plays at the Naka no Shibai the roles of Okaru, Oishi, Osono and Kaoyo in the classic "Kanadehon Chûshingura". His stage partners are Arashi Kichisaburô III, Jitsukawa Enzaburô I, Nakamura Jakuemon I and Arashi Hinasuke VII.
July 1865: tour in Miyajima; Senjo and his son Fujikawa Kayû IV play the roles of Tonase and her daughter Konami in the drama "Kanadehon Chûshingura".
September 1870: Senjo plays the roles of Shizuka Gozen and Kosen at the Naka no Shibai in the classic "Yoshitsune Sembon Zakura".
May 1871: Senjo appears on stage for the last time, at the Takeda no Shibai (Ôsaka), playing in the drama "Yanagi no Ito Kokonoe Nishiki".
Comments:
Ogino Senjo was a talented onnagata actor, who achieved fame for himself in Kamigata during the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century.
Ogino Senjo playing the role of Hanazono in the drama "Ôtô-no-Miya Asahi no Yoroi", which was staged in May 1865 at the Kita-Horie Ichigawa no Shibai (Ôsaka) in a print made by Utagawa Yoshitaki
Print made by Utagawa Toyokuni in 1849