various biographies, such as that of Ihara Saikaku, she is 16 years old. Ki no Kaion [ja], in his jōruri Yaoya Oshichi, placed Oshichi's birth as during the...

Matsuda Wakichi, and Wakatake Fuemi further revised Ki no Kaion's play to produce Date musume koi no higanoko. In these two versions, Oshichi does not commit...

(1603-1868) in which the Tokugawa ruled. Yoshitsune Shin-Takadachi, written by Ki no Kaion and first performed in 1719, over a century after the events of the siege...

then, Chao Liu, having learned about Kaion's plan, boards the flagship and battles Kaion's crew. However, Kaion manages to escape in the commotion to...