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The Twenty-Four Dutiful Sons

(本朝廿四孝) (Honchō nijūshikō)

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First Staged: 1766
Reference: Keene, Donald, Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973); Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 221, December 1983; Bunraku December 1983 Performance Program; Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976)

Written By: Chikamatsu Hanji (近松半二) , Miyoshi Shōraku (三好松洛) , Takeda Inaba (竹田因幡) , Takeda Koide (竹田小出) , Takeda Heishichi (竹田平七) , Takemoto Saburobei (竹本三郎兵衛)

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