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Nakamura Utaemon IV (中村歌右衛門 (4代目), 1798–1852) was a Japanese kabuki performer. He was a prominent member of a family of kabuki actors from the Keihanshin region.
Nakamura Utaemon was a stage name with significant cultural and historical connotations.




Life and career


Utaemon IV was believed to be the artistic heir of Nakamura Utaemon III. In the conservative Kabuki world, stage names are passed from father to son in formal system which converts the kabuki stage name into a mark of accomplishment.

Lineage of Utaemon stage names
Nakamura Utaemon I (1714–1791)
Nakamura Utaemon II (1752-1798)
Nakamura Utaemon III (1778–1838)
Nakamura Utaemon IV (1798–1852)
Nakamura Utaemon V (1865–1940)
Nakamura Utaemon VI (1917–2001)
In a long career, he acted in many roles including Ishikawa Goemon in the 1838 Edo Nakamura-za production of Sanmon Hitome Senbon.




See also


Shūmei




References






Bibliography


Leiter, Samuel L. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Traditional Theatre. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5527-4; OCLC 238637010
__________. ( 2002). A Kabuki Reader: History and Performance. ISBN 9780765607041; ISBN 9780765607058; OCLC 182632867
Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301
Scott, Adolphe Clarence. (1955). The Kabuki Theatre of Japan. London: Allen & Unwin. OCLC 622644114




External links



Waseda University, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
"Memorial portrait of Nakamura Utaemon [IV] at age 57" by Utagawa Kunisada, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Toei Company
• Nakamura Utaemon IV
• Nakamura Utaemon
• Nakamura Utaemon VI
• Nakamura (surname)
• Nakamura Utaemon III
• Nakamura Utaemon II
• Nakamura Utaemon V
• Nakamura Utaemon I
• Actor Nakamura Shikan II as Satake Shinjuro
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