Onoe Matsusuke I (初代尾上松助: 11/1755 to 10/1809) (actor 1744 – 1815)

Alternate names: Onoe Shōroku I (初代尾上松緑: 11/1809 to 10/1815)
Onoe Tokuzō (尾上徳蔵: til 10/1755)
Jusen (poetry name - 重扇)
Sanchō (poetry name - 三朝)
Shōroku (poetry name - 松緑)

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Biography:

This actor held this name from 11/1764 to 10/1809. Matsusuke I's first teacher was Onoe Kikugorō I (1717-83). His adopted son was Onoe Kikugorō III (1784-1849). There are more than 25 prints in the Lyon Collection representing that actor. He played both male and female roles and sometimes as a vengeful ghost, one of his specialties. (JSV)

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Matsusuke I was portrayed under this name as early as 1765 by Kiyomitsu I, by Kiyotsune in ca. 1765, by Bunchō in 1770, in 1772 by Shunshō, in 1774 by Kiyonaga, by Shunkō in ca. 1776, by Shunjō in 1781, in 1781 by Shun'ei, by Hokusai in 1790, by Sharaku in 1794, by Toyokuni I in 1795, and by both Kunimitsu I and Shuntei in 1808. He also appeared in a print by Shigemasa, date unknown. (JSV)

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