Tsuruya Namboku IV

Tsuruya Namboku IV

▪ Japanese dramatist
original name  Ebiya Genzō,  also called  Dai Namboku 
born 1755, Edo [now Tokyo], Japan
died Dec. 23, 1829, Edo

      Japanese Kabuki playwright of the late Tokugawa period (1603–1867), known for his plays with supernatural themes and macabre and grotesque-looking characters.

      Little is known of his early years, but in 1755 he became an apprentice of the dramatist Sakurada Jisuke I. About 1780 he married the daughter of Tsuruya Namboku III, a well-known Kabuki actor of the time. After a long apprenticeship he finally became the chief playwright for the Kawarazaki Theatre in Edo about 1801. He took the name Tsuruya Namboku IV in 1811.

      His first major success was Tenjiku Tokubei ikoku-banashi (1804; “Tokubei of India: Tales of Strange Lands”), written for the leading actor of the day, Onoe Matsusuke I. Namboku wrote for the virtuoso performer, and his originality and stagecraft were immensely popular among the Kabuki patrons of Edo. In all he wrote some 120 plays. Using his specialty, ghostly themes, he vividly portrayed the lives of commoners, interweaving cruelty, humour, and pathos. His most popular works include Osome Hisamatsu ukina no yomiuri (1813; “Osome and Hisamatsu: A Scandal Sheet”) and Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (1825; “Ghost Story of Tōkaidō Yotsuya”).

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