Ningyōshi Tenguya Hisakichi

… theatre and in 1942 published Ningyōshi Tenguya Hisakichi (“The Doll-Maker Tenguya Hisakichi”). She wrote the narrative in the voice of Tenguya Hisakichi, a carver of Bunraku puppets, as though she were telling his own story, a device she would later use in perhaps her finest work, the novella Ohan (1957;…