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The Priest in Exile

(平家女護島) (Heike nyōgo no shima)

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First Staged: 1719
Reference: Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Keene, Donald, Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973); Bunraku February 1986, October 1986 Performance Programs; Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, edited by Karen Brazell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Written By: Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門)

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