Tsuruya Namboku IV: Quick Facts

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Kawatake Mokuami

Japanese dramatist

Okamoto Kidō

Japanese drama critic

Sakurada Jisuke I

Japanese dramatist

Mishima Yukio

Japanese author

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Japanese dramatist

Abe Kōbō

Japanese author

Zeami

Japanese playwright

Izumi Kyōka

Japanese author

Ariyoshi Sawako

Japanese author

Kan’ami

Japanese actor, playwright, and musician

Masamune Hakuchō

Japanese author

Kikuchi Kan

Japanese author

Mushanokōji Saneatsu

Japanese writer and painter

Kinoshita Junji

Japanese writer

Namiki Gohei I

Japanese playwright

Komparu Zenchiku

Japanese nō dramatist

Kume Masao

Japanese author

Komparu Zempō

Japanese nō dramatist

Ernest F. Fenollosa

American orientalist and art critic

Bandō Tamasaburō V

Japanese Kabuki actor