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The Gion Festival

(祇園祭礼信仰記) (Gion sairei shinkōki)

First Staged: 1757
Reference: Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 203, May 1982; Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Bunraku May 1982 Performance Program

Written By: Nakamura Akei (中邑阿契) , Toyotake Ōritsu (豊竹応律) , Asada Icchō (浅田一鳥) , Koku Zōsu (黒蔵主) , Mitsu

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