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The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple

(壺坂観音霊験記) (Tsubosaka Kannon reigenki)

First Staged: 1879
Reference: Keene, Donald, Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973); Bunraku January 1989 Performance Program; Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 246, December 1985; Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, edited by Karen Brazell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)

Written By: Toyozawa Danpei, II (豊沢団平) , Kako Chika (加古千賀)

Performances:

• January 1972: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• February 1973 Tour: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• October 1974: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• September 1979: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• April 1980: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• July 1983: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• December 1985 Bunraku Kanshō Kyōshitsu: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• March 1987: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• January 1989: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• May 1991: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• December 1988 Bunraku Kanshō Kyōshitsu: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• January 1995: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• January 1997: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• October 1967: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple
• September 1969 Kōkōsei no tame no Bunraku Kyōshitsu: The Miracle at the Tsubosaka Kannon Temple

Kashira:

• Genta (源太)
• Musume (娘)
• Fukeoyama (老女形)
• Genta (nemuri tsuki) (源太眠りつき)

Characters:

• Osato (女房お里)
• Sawaichi (座頭沢市)
• Tea stall proprietress (茶店の嬶)
• Goddess of Mercy (観世音)