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Tenjiku Tokubei ikoku-banashi

play by Namboku
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Tenjiku Tokubei ikoku-banashi is a play by the Japanese Kabuki playwright Tsuruya Namboku IV, first performed in 1804. The title translates to "Tokubei of India: Tales of Strange Lands". Namboku was known for his plays featuring supernatural themes and macabre characters, and this work was a significant success, written for the leading actor of the time, Onoe Matsusuke I. Namboku's originality and stagecraft were highly popular with Edo Kabuki audiences. He wrote approximately 120 plays in his career, often interweaving cruelty, humor, and pathos to depict the lives of commoners.1

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  1. Tsuruya Namboku IV
  2. Japanese performing arts - Tokugawa period
  3. Japanese performing arts - Meiji period
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