Hanroku Ikushima

Japanese: 生島半六 - いくしま はんろく
Hanroku Ikushima
?-1704 A Kabuki actor from the early Edo period.
He became an apprentice to Takeshima Kozaemon I, and later to Ikushima Shingoro. He excelled in both his work and his tanzen skills, and became the head of the Edo Ichimura-za Theatre. In February 1704, while performing in the same theatre in the play "Watamashi Jyuudan," he stabbed Ichikawa Danjūrō ​​I to death after an argument in the dressing room, and died in prison on April 3, 1705. His original name was Sugiyama Hanroku.

Source: Kodansha Digital Japanese Name Dictionary +Plus Information | Legend

Japanese:
?-1704 江戸時代前期の歌舞伎役者。
初代竹島幸左衛門に,のち生島新五郎に弟子入りする。実事と丹前にすぐれ,江戸市村座の頭取となる。元禄(げんろく)17年(1704)2月同座で「移徙(わたまし)十二段」に出演中,楽屋で口論のすえ初代市川団十郎を刺殺し,宝永元年4月3日獄死した。初名は杉山半六。

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