Stage name:

Sakon Ibê

Existence: ??? ~ 23rd day of the 11 lunar month of 1715 ^[1]

Career:

1694: recorded for the first time, in an Edo hyôbanki; he was a kashagata.

1st lunar month of 1695: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka-no-jô (superior in the middle class).

1st lunar month of 1697: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the new year drama "Daifukuchô Sankai Nagoya", which included the first bombastic "Shibaraku" scene in Kabuki history.

3rd lunar month of 1699: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka (middle class).

5th lunar month of 1699: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the drama "Katsuragi Sayo Arashi".

11th lunar month of 1699: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the tsubone Takahashi in the kaomise drama "Taira no Kiyomori Bijin Zoroi".

1st lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the new year drama "Keisei Ôshôkun".

3rd lunar month of 1701: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was naka (middle class) in one hyôbanki and jô (superior) [visual] in another hyôbanki. Ibê performed in the same theater in the sumidagawamono "Shusse Sumidagawa".

5th lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed in the same theater in Mimasuya Hyôgo's drama "Nihon Gion Shôja".

11th lunar month of 1701: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Keisei Ikazuchi Mondô".

3rd lunar month of 1702: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô (superior) [visual].

10th lunar month of 1702: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the drama "Yûgao no Kannon Hôben".

3rd lunar month of 1703: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô (superior - superior) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1703: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Shinshun Niwatori Taiheiki".

11th lunar month of 1704: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Konrei Iro Komachi".

3rd lunar month of 1705: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of Princess Chûjô's mother in the drama "Chûjô-hime Mitsu no Kuruma"; the role of Princess Chûjô was played by Nakamura Gentarô.

11th lunar month of 1706: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Uji Genji Yumihari-zuki", which welcomed in Edo the Kamigata actors Fujimura Handayû II and Yoshioka Motome II.

11th lunar month of 1707: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Suô no Naishi Azuma Nishiki", which welcomed in Edo the actor Arashi Kiyosaburô I.

1st lunar month of 1708: Ibê played in the same theater the role of the mother of the Soga Brothers in the new year sogamono drama "Keisei Arashi Soga"; the roles of Soga Gorô Tokimune and Soga Jûrô Sukenari were played by Tomizawa Hanzaburô I and Nakamura Shichisaburô I ^[2].

3rd lunar month of 1708: Ibê played in the same theater the role of Hôjûin in Nakamura Seigorô II's drama "Chûjô-hime Kyô Hiina".

11th lunar month of 1708: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Miyasundokoro Monomiguruma".

11th lunar month of 1709: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Imagawajô Ryôshun Katoku".

3rd lunar month of 1710: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1710: Ibê performed at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Shinsen Kazanin".

1st lunar month of 1711: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the mother of the Soga Brothers in the new year sogamono drama "Senrei Suehiro Soga"; the role of Soga Gorô Tokimune was played by Nakajima Kanzaemon I.

3rd lunar month of 1711: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1711: Ibê played at the Nakamuraza the role of the tsubone Takahashi in the kaomise drama "Mitsu Uroko Katoku Biraki".

1st lunar month of 1712: Ibê performed in the same theater in the new year sogamono drama "Kotobuki Maizuru Soga". No stage record afterwards.

3rd lunar month of 1712: Ibê's rank in the Edo hyôbanki, kashagata section, was jô-jô-(shiro)kichi (superior - superior - (white) excellent) [visual].

12th lunar month of 1712: Ibê did not perform at the Nakamuraza in the kaomise drama "Konrei Shinoda Zuma" but his rank in the Edo hyôbanki in the 4th lunar month of 1713, kashagata section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual]. He shared the same rank with Kokan Tarôji I.

23rd day of the 11 lunar month of 1715 ^[1]: Ibê died in Edo.

Comments:

Sakon Ibê was a popular Edo kashagata actor, who was active from the middle of the 1790s to the beginning of the 1710s. He performed only in one theater: the Nakamuraza.

[1] The 23rd day of the 11 lunar month of the 5th year of the Shôtoku era was the 18th of December 1715 in the western calendar.

[2] This was the last appearance on stage for the Edo star Nakamura Shichisaburô I.

Nakamura Denkurô I (top/1st from left), Nakamura Shichisaburô I (top/2nd from left), Sakon Ibê (top/2nd from right), Ogawa Zengorô I (top/1st from right), ??? (bottom/1st from left), Tsutsui Kichijûrô I (center) and Hayakawa Hatsuse (bottom/1st from right) playing the roles of the tôfuya Densuke, Fujiwara no Harutoki, Princess Chûjô's mother, Emi no Oshikatsu, Harutoki's Okame, Harutoki's wife Matsugae and Shiratama in the drama "Chûjô-hime Mitsu no Kuruma", which was staged in the 3rd lunar month of 1705 at the Nakamuraza