A theatre manager and writer, Takeda Izumo II (1691–1756), collaborated with several other authors on all-day history plays, the so-called “Three Great Masterpieces” of puppet drama: Sugawara denju tenarai kagami (1746; The Secret of Sugawara’s Calligraphy), Yoshitsune sembonzakura (1747; Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees), and Kanadehon chūshingura (1748; Chūshingura:…
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