Namiki Shōzō I.

Namiki Shōzō I. ( Japanese 並 木 正 三 ; Izumiya Shōzō , 泉 屋 正 三 ; Ōnishi Shōzō , 大西 庄 三 ; * 1730 in Ōsaka ; † February 17, 1773 ibid) was a Japanese Kabuki and Bunraku author.

Live and act

Shōzō's father, Izumiya Shōbei , ran a coffee house in a theater ( Shibai jaya ). Shōzō became an eighteen-year-old author at the theaters Ōnishi no Shibai and Naka no Shibai and wrote his first drama Fuyugomori Tsumagoi Ikusa under the stage name Izumiya Shōzō . His second piece Otokodate Yōrō no Taki he wrote the following year under the name Ōnishi Shōzō together with Takagi Richū . Both were performed at the Naka no Shibai Theater. At the Amnishi no Shibai theater , the premiere of his play Kotobuki Kogane no Kachi Ikusa with the actors Bandō Toyosaburō I , Arashi Sanjūrō ​​II. , Iwai Hanshirō III took place in 1749 . , Sanjō Namie I. , Iwata Somematsu , Mimasu Daigoro I. and Nakamura Utaemon I. instead.

In 1751 Shōzō took lessons from the puppeteer Namiki Sōsuke , who, however, died in the same year. In December of that year he brought out the puppet show Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki under the guidance of his teacher under the name Namiki Shōzō at the Ningyō-Jōruri -Theater Toyotakeza . 1752 Shōzō was chief dramaturge ( Tatesakusha ) at the Naka no Shibai theater.

In 1758 he used a revolving stage ( Mawaributai ) he had invented for the first time in the Kabuki theater for the play Sanjukkoku Yobune no Hajimari . In 1769 he went on a tour through the province of Awa and Shikoku with the actor Arashi Hinasuke I. His last drama Nippon Daiichi Mekari no Shinji came on the stage of the Naka no Shibai theater in February 1773 a few days before his death.

Namiki Shōzō's students include Namiki Gohei I , Nagawa Kamesuke I , Namiki Shōzō II , Namiki Kitasuke , Namiki Tōnan , Namiki Namboku and Namiki Sōji .

Works

• Fuyugomori Tsumagoi Ikusa , 1748
• Otokodate Yōrō no Taki , 1749
• Kotobuki Kogane no Kachi Ikusa , 1749
• Ichi-no-Tani Futaba Gunki , 1751
• Nagoya Ori Hinatsuru no Nishiki (premiere with Fujikawa Heikurō , Sakata Tōjūrō III. , Arashi Koroku I , Fujikawa Hachizō I. , Mimasu Daigorō I and Yoshizawa Sakinosuke II. ), 1752
• Arigatashi Fujiwara Keizu , 1758
• Sanjukkoku Yobune no Hajimari , 1758
• Keisei Hana no Shiroyama , 1764
• Yadonashi Danshichi Shigure no Karakasa , 1767
• Kuwanaya Tokuzō Irifune Monogatari , 1770
• Onoe Kikugorō no Baranu Banashi , 1772
• Nippon Daiichi Mekari no Shinji , 1773

source

• Kabuki 21 - Namiki Shōzō I

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Namiki is the family name, Shōzō the first name.