- Isshin Tasuke
is a fictional Japanese person. He has appeared in novels and plays,
kōdan , television and film "jidaigeki " and other media. The earliest known appearance was in the work "Ōkubo Musashi Abumi."Brimming with the
Japanese values of "giri " and "ninjō ," the fishmonger Tasuke is the epitome of the "Edokko ," the son ofEdo . A stock character in works set during the time of the third Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu (who ruled from 1623 to 1651), he collaborates with the veteran samurai Ōkubo Hikozaemon.Tasuke is so beloved that although fictional, he has a grave at a temple in
Minato, Tokyo .Appearances
Isshin Tasuke has appeared in many works of fiction.
Kabuki
In
kabuki , Tasuke is a character in "Medashi Yanagi Midori no Matsumae" (芽出柳翠緑松前).Film
The dozen works with Tasuke's name in the title include the 1930
Chiezō Kataoka portrayal in theNikkatsu film "Isshin Tasuke," directed byHiroshi Inagaki .Akira Kurosawa wrote the screenplay for the 1945 "Appare Isshin Taskue" starringKenichi Enomoto (directed byKiyoshi Saeki forToho ). Kabuki actor Kinnosuke Nakamura (Yorozuya) starred in five of a series of six movies for Toei (Katsuo Nakamura portrayed the hero in the other).Television
Three series and two specials have featured Tasuke in their titles. These aired on TBS (1969, 52 episodes starring Tarō Yamada), Fuji (1971, 25 episodes, starring
Ryōtarō Sugi ), Asahi (ANB) (1989, a New Year special starringTōru Nakamura ),Nippon Television (1990, a special withMorio Kazama ), andNHK (1999, 24 episodes on Friday evening prime time) withNaoto Ogata as Tasuke.ong
Isshin Tasuke is in the titles of three "
enka ".Ichirō Toba sang "Bungo no Isshin Tasuke".Mitsuko Nakamura recorded "Mitsuko no Isshin Tasuke". Tarō Yamada (who starred in the television series) released "Otoko! Isshin Tasuke."External links
IMDB lists several works:
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273432/ Appare Isshin Tasuke] 1945
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201974/ Isshin Tasuke - Tenka no ichidaiji] 1958
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200744/ Iyemitsu to Hikoza to isshin yasuke (sic)] 1961
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323889/ Sarariman Isshin Tasuke] 1962
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183775/ Shogun Iemitsu, Hikosa and Tasuke Issin] (television) 1989
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