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Yoshitsune and a Thousand Cherry Trees

(義経千本桜) (Yoshitsune senbonzakura)

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First Staged: 1747
Reference: Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, edited by Karen Brazell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Kokuritsu Gekijō jōen shiryōshū, edited by Kokuritsu Gekijō Geinō Chōsashitsu, vol. 191, May 1981; Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Bunraku May 1981 Performance Program

Written By: Takeda Izumo, II (竹田出雲) , Miyoshi Shōraku (三好松洛) , Namiki Senryū (See also Namiki Namiki Sōsuke) (並木千柳)

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