FOUR GENERATIONS
Arashi Shichigorô I
 

The actor Arashi Shichigorô I held this name from the 1720s to 1753 (?).

Arashi Shichigorô I performing in November 1749 at the Naka no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Fûryû Gosho Zakura"

Arashi Shichigorô II
 

The actor Arashi Shichigorô II held this name from February 1758 to May 1788.

Arashi Shichigorô II in an illustration from the book "Santo Yakusha Omokage Zukushi",
which was published in Ôsaka by Yamatoya Kaemon in 1784

Arashi Shichigorô III
 

The actor Arashi Shichigorô III held this name from November 1797 to November 1798.

Arashi Shichigorô III playing the role of Igu no Jûrô in the kaomise drama "Kaikei Kokyô no Nishikigi", which was staged in November 1797 at the Nakamuraza
(print made by Utagawa Toyokuni I)

Arashi Shichigorô IV
 

Dates of birth and death unknown. He took the name of Arashi Shichigorô IV at an unknown. His previous stage names and his relationship to Arashi Shichigorô III are unknown. This minor supporting actor settled in Edo in January 1826, as part of a troupe of Kamigata actors led by Kataoka Nizaemon VII. He stayed in Edo up to the beginning of the 1830s.

 
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