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The Three Blind Masseurs

(盲杖桜雪社) (Mojo zakura yuki no miyashiro)

First Staged: 1884
Reference: Keene, Donald, Bunraku: The Art of the Japanese Puppet Theatre (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1973); Hironaga, Shūzaburō, The Bunraku Handbook (Tokyo: Maison des Arts, 1976); Bunraku February 1968, October 1977 Performance Programs

Performances:

• February 1968: The Three Blind Masseurs
• January 1973: The Three Blind Masseurs
• October 1977: The Three Blind Masseurs

Kashira:

• Zatō (座頭)

Characters:

• Fukunoichi (福の市)
• Tokunoichi (徳の市)
• Tamanoichi (玉の市)