Koide Ichijūrō

Koide Ichijūrō was a Japanese kabuki composer-performer of "long songs" of the Edo period. He was at first a student of Yoshizumi Kosaburo 1st and identified himself as Yoshizumi Ichijuro. From 1747 he appeared at the Morita-za, one of the three venues of Edo. Afterwards he became a disciple of Fujita Yoshiji 1st, receiving recognition also in Osaka. During the Meiwa-Tenmei period when the meriyasu genre of solo songs was in vogue he received recognition for shirotae and the kouta song kurokami. The name Ichijūrō was taken up by 2nd, 3rd, generation of performers of his songs.