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The Pregnant Mountain Ogress (Heroine)

(嫗山姥) (Komochi yamanba)

First Staged: 1712
Reference: Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 93, May 1973; Bunraku February 1997 Performance Program

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

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