The first performance was presumably Tokimune SOGA in "Kokusenya Takenuki Goro" (Coxinga and Bamboo-Uprooting Goro) played by Danjuro ICHIKAWA (the second) at Edo Nakamura-za Theater in 1727.
享保12年(1727年)、江戸中村座の『国性爺竹抜五郎』（こくせんや・たけぬき-ごろう）において市川團十郎_(2代目)が勤めた曾我時致が初出か。