Naniwateikomakichi - Naniwateikomakichi

A rakugo performer. His real name was Sakurai Komakichi. He is also said to have been a disciple of Naniwatei Tatsunosuke, a Nagoya saimon performer. He went to Edo during the late Edo period and discovered the sekkyo joruri performer Higurashi Ryuboku. He was encouraged to use a sekkyobushi-style shamisen as an interlude in his saimon, and with the help of Togawa Teru on the accompanying shamisen, he is said to have devised 18 different yakubushi. After the Meiji Restoration, he was the first in Tokyo to put up a sign for "Ozashiki Naniwabushi" and became the first Naniwabushi storyteller to distinguish himself from street performance saimon.

[Chichibu Hisakata]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

浪曲師。本名桜井駒吉。名古屋祭文(さいもん)の浪花亭辰之助(たつのすけ)門下とも伝える。幕末期に江戸へ出て説経浄瑠璃(じょうるり)の日暮龍卜(ひぐらしりゅうぼく)を知り、祭文の合の手に説経節(ぶし)風の三味線を使うことを勧められ、相三味線に戸川てるという協力者を得て、18通りの約節(やくぶし)をくふうしたといわれる。明治維新後、東京で初めて「お座敷浪花節」の看板を掲げ、大道芸の祭文と一線を画した最初の浪花節語りとなった。

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