Stage names:

Nakamura Shirogorô III
Ichikawa Kyôzô

Line number: SANDAIME (III)

Poetry names: Kakyô, Nyokô

Existence: 1725 ~ 20th day of the 9th lunar month of 1766 ^[1]

Connection:

Master: Nakamura Kiyosaburô I

Career:

1725: born in Kyôto. He started his career in inaka shibai.

1747: he took the name of Ichikawa Kyôzô in Kyôto and performed in koshibai. He was quickly spotted by Nakamura Kiyosaburô I and became his disciple.

11th lunar month of 1747: he took the name of Nakamura Shirogorô III in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai, where he performed in the kaomise drama "Teikin Ôrai Manzoku Kagami", which was produced by Nakamura Matsubê I and celebrated the shûmei of Sakakiyama Kôshirô II and his son Sakakiyama Shirotarô II.

Fall 1761: Shirogorô went to Ôsaka.

11th lunar month of 1761: Shirogorô performed at the Naka no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Miyo no Hana Yunzei Kagami", which was produced by Mimasu Daigorô I.

12th lunar month of 1761: premiere at the Naka no Shibai of Takeda Haruzô's ni-no-kawari drama "Akiba Gongen Kaisen Banashi". It was the first drama in Kabuki history using gandô-gaeshi on stage; Shirogorô played the role of Tsukimoto Enshû [casting].

4th lunar month of 1762: first Kabuki adaptation of the 5-act puppet theater drama "Gosho Zakura Horikawa no Youchi", which was staged at the Naka no Shibai; Shirogorô played the role of Shibuya Tosa-no-Bô Shôshun [casting].

11th lunar month of 1762: Shirogorô played at the Naka no Shibai the role of Abe no Yasuna in the kaomise drama "Uchide no Kozuchi Tezuma Urakata", which was produced by Mimasu Daigorô I.

1st lunar month of 1763: Shirogorô's rank in the Ôsaka hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1763: Shirogorô played at the Kado no Shibai the role of Yamanouchi Banzô in the kaomise drama "Kachidoki Aun no Ishizue", which was produced by Nakayama Bunshichi I and celebrated the shûmei of Sanogawa Hanazuma III.

Fall 1764: Shirogorô went back to Kyôto.

11th lunar month of 1764: Shirogorô played in Kyôto at the Kitagawa no Shibai the role of Minamoto no Yoshitsune in Namiki Shôzô I's kaomise drama "Genpei Tsûrikimaru", which celebrated the shûmei of Iwai Hanshirô.

1st lunar month of 1765: Shirogorô's rank in the Kyôto hyôbanki, tachiyaku section, was jô-jô-kichi (superior - superior - excellent) [visual].

11th lunar month of 1765: Shirogorô performed at the Minamigawa no Shibai in the kaomise drama "Kachidoki Asahi no Ôgi", which was produced by Ichiyama Sukegorô II and Yamashita Kyônosuke and welcomed in Kyôto the Edo actor Ichikawa Danzô III.

1st lunar month of 1766: Shirogorô appeared on stage for the last time, in Kyôto in the same theater, where he the role of Ishidô Yamashiro-no-Kami in the ni-no-kawari drama "Keisei Shinonome Zakura".

20th of the 9th lunar month of 1766 ^[1]: Shirogorô died in Kyôto.

Comments:

Nakamura Shirogorô III was a talented and popular Kyôto tachiyaku actor, who was active in Kyôto or Ôsaka from the second half of the 1740s to the second half of the 1760s. He was ranked jô-jô-kichi for 4 seasons (2 in Ôsaka and 2 in Kyôto).

[1] The 20th of the 9th lunar month of the 3rd year of the Meiwa era was the 23rd of October 1766 in the western calendar.

Nakamura Shirogorô III (right) and Fujikawa Hanzaburô III (left/holding the severed head of Tsuchimatsu) playing the roles of Gonshirô and Banba no Chûta in the "Sasabiki" scene of the drama "Hirakana Seisuiki", which was staged in the 7th lunar month of 1760 at the Naka no Shibai

The Nakamura Shirogorô line of actors