Stage names:

Kamakura Chôkurô II
Kamakura Chôkurô
Kamakura Chôkurô II
Kamakura Chôkurô
Kamakura Hanzaburô

Line number: NIDAIME (II)

Existence: ???

Connection:

Father: Kamakura Chôkurô I

Career:

1700s ~ beginning of the 1710s: son of Kamakura Chôkurô I, his first stage name is Kamakura Hanzaburô. He makes his apprenticeship in Edo in miyaji shibai.

2nd lunar month of 1713: Hanzaburô performs as a tachiyaku at the Moritaza; this is most likely his first stage appearance in ôshibai.

11th lunar month of 1713: Hanzaburô performs at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Yoshitomo Kaikeizan".

21st day of the 11th lunar month of 1718: his father Kamakura Chôkurô I dies.

11th lunar month of 1718: he becomes katakiyaku and takes the name of Kamakura Chôkurô at the Moritaza, where he plays the role of Nariyabuki Yachûta in the kaomise drama "Zenkunen Yoroi Kurabe". The ideogram for "Chô" is not yet the one which was used by his father:

11th lunar month of 1720: Chôkurô plays at the Nakamuraza the role of Munehira in the kaomise drama "Michinoku Taiheiki".

1st lunar month of 1721: he takes the name of Kamakura Chôkurô II and plays in the same theater the role of Kamakuraya Hanza in the new year sogamono drama "Kichijô Ôtaka Soga".

1st lunar month of 1723: he becomes tachiyaku and takes back the name of Kamakura Chôkurô, playing at the Ichimuraza the role of Mikuni no Kurô in the new year sogamono drama "Manazuru Kazô Soga".

11th lunar month of 1723: he becomes jitsuaku and takes back the name of Kamakura Chôkurô II, playing at the Ichimuraza the role of Minamoto no Yorichika in the kaomise drama "Hinagata Shûten Dôji", which celebrates the arrival in Edo of the Kamigata actor Ogino Izaburô I.

11th lunar month of 1724: Chôkurô becomes tachiyaku and performs at the Ichimuraza in the kaomise drama "Bankoku Taiheiki"; his stage partners are Ichikawa Danzô I, Tomizawa Hanzaburô I, Ogino Izaburô I, Matsushima Hyôtarô, Ogawa Zengorô I, Sodesaki Miwano I, Mimasuya Sukejûrô I, Fujimura Handayû II, Nakajima Mihoemon I and Nakamura Kichibê I.

11th lunar month of 1727: Chôkurô plays at the Ichimuraza the role of Nagasaka Chôkan in the kaomise drama "Goshozome Kôyô Gunki", which celebrates the return in Edo of the actor Bandô Hikosaburô I.

11th lunar month of 1731: Chôkurô plays at the Moritaza the role of Aoto Saemon Fujitsuna in the kaomise drama "Honryô Sakae Hachinoki".

11th lunar month of 1735: Chôkurô plays at the Kawarasakiza the role of Matano no Gorô in the kaomise drama "Banzei Ikioi Izu Nikki".

11th lunar month of 1736: Chôkurô plays at the Ichimuraza the role of Kumasaka Chôkurô in the kaomise drama "Izu Genji Hôrai Yakata", which celebrates the arrival in Edo from Kyôto of the actor Tomizawa Montarô I and the shûmei of Tsuruya Nanboku II.

1st lunar month of 1737: Chôkurô's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, jitsuaku section, is jô-jô-(shiro)hankichi (superior - superior - (white) half excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1737: Chôkurô plays at the Ichimuraza the role of Rokujô no Sukedayû in the kaomise program "Genji Kumo Ôgi no Shiba", which celebrates the shûmei of Ichimura Uzaemon VIII; the others stage partners are Sawamura Sôjûrô I, Bandô Hikosaburô I, Tamazawa Saijirô I, Tomizawa Montarô I, Matsumoto Kôshirô II, Hayakawa Shinkatsu and Tsuruya Nanboku II.

11th lunar month of 1738: Chôkurô becomes jitsuaku and plays at the Ichimuraza the role of Ômori Hikoshichi in the kaomise drama "Mitsugibune Taiheiki"; this is most likely his last stage appearance. We don't know what happens to him afterwards for he disappears from the records.

Comments:

Kamakura Chôkurô II was an Edo actor, who was active as a tachiyaku, katakiyaku or a jitsuaku from the beginning of the 1710s to the end of the 1730s. He was popular.

Kamakura Chôkurô II playing the role of Matano no Gorô in the kaomise drama "Banzei Ikioi Izu Nikki", which was staged in the 11th lunar month of 1735 at the Kawarasakiza

The Kamakura Chôkurô line of actors