• Kuniyoshi, The Monster's Chūshingura (Bakemono Chūshingura), ca. 1836, Princeton University Art Museum, Acts 5–8 of the Kanadehon Chūshingura with act five at...
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  • copied in the later Chūshingura. Three years later in the Kyoto-Osaka region where censorship was reportedly lighter, Chūshingura premiered. It was an...
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    original holdings) to the Asano clan. In the famous kabuki play Kanadehon Chūshingura, Yoshio (Kuranosuke) is known as Ōboshi Yuranosuke. Statue of Ōishi...
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    the adaptations was a bunraku puppet play called Kanadehon Chūshingura (now simply called Chūshingura, or "Treasury of Loyal Retainers"), written in 1748...
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    person The Monster's Chūshingura (Bakemono Chūshingura), ca. 1836, Princeton University Art Museum Acts 9-11 of the Kanadehon Chūshingura with act nine at...
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    Emperor Meiji. The story of Kira assassination was firstly written as Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) in 1703, and it has been told in kabuki, bunraku, Rōkyoku...
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    these historical settings as metaphors for contemporary events. Kanadehon Chūshingura, one of the most famous plays in the kabuki repertoire, serves as...
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    which it is taken depict characters from a staging of the play Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) performed in Osaka in the third month of 1848. The play...
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    present-day Tokyo) as a double-feature with the immensely popular Kanadehon Chushingura. Normally, with a Kabuki double-feature, the first play is staged...
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    originally called yorozuya (万屋, general store), but in the play Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵) (a telling of the story of the forty-seven rōnin, based...
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    whom the people from the Edo period, recognized as Sadakurō from Kanadehon Chūshingura In 1886, the publisher Maeda Kihei (前田喜兵衛) negotiated with manufacturers...
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  • in Yukio Ninagawa's modern adaptation of the Kabuki masterpiece Kanadehon Chūshingura. In 2004, she wrote, directed, and starred in the film Barameraba...
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  • had many similarities to that of karō. The famous samurai tale, Kanadehon Chūshingura, describes events involving a karō. The final Asano daimyō of the...
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  • Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (忠臣蔵 花の巻 雪の巻, Chushingura: Story of Flower, Story of Snow) is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki epic film directed by...
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  • all they know how to perform is kabuki. Kanadehon Hamlet takes Hamlet, a tragedy, and Kanadehon Chūshingura, a melodrama, and brings them together in...
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  • cherry blossoms, those of Yoshino". The proverb also appears in Kanadehon Chushingura from 1748. Later, the proverb was evoked in the Japanese military...
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    reign the first performance of the popular eleven-act puppet play Kanadehon Chūshingura was performed. The fictionalized story of the play is about samurai...
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    lewdness. Because of this reputation, in the bunraku and kabuki play Kanadehon Chūshingura, which depicts the vendetta of the 47 rōnin, his name is used to...
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    Yoshinoyama, are acts in the kabuki plays adapted from bunraku, Kanadehon Chūshingura and Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura. In addition, during climaxes of nihon-buyō...
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    most successful of them was a bunraku play called Kanadehon Chūshingura (now simply called Chūshingura, or "Treasury of Loyal Retainers"), written in 1748...
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  • for Tokyo's National Theater. He performed as Kakogawa Honzō in Kanadehon Chūshingura (The Tale of the 47 Ronin) in December 1974 at the National Theater...
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  • 1940, he visited Tokyo's Kabuki-za where he watched the famous Kanadehon Chūshingura kabuki play, and was very moved by kabuki as an art form. Four years...
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  • Nights Club (1996) Shochiku Chairman's Award - Ashikaga Naoyoshi in Kanadehon Chūshingura (1998) Shochiku Chairman's Award - Shunkyo Kagamijishi (1999) Shochiku...
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  • let to the kabuki influences. The early story draft was based on Kanadehon Chūshingura, a kabuki play based on the history of the forty-seven rōnin. Only...
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    woodblock prints show their stately processions. The Bunraku play Kanadehon Chūshingura, the fictionalized account of the true story of the Forty-seven...
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    Mishima was 13, Natsuko took him to see his first Kabuki play: Kanadehon Chūshingura, an allegory of the story of the 47 Rōnin. He was later taken to...
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    and auspiciousness with which the play began. The other two are Kanadehon Chūshingura and Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, which were written and premièred...
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    Sōsuke and Miyoshi Shōraku. Along with Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura and Kanadehon Chūshingura, it is one of the three most famous and popular plays in the kabuki...
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  • Foundling Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū – Kanadehon Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵, original version for bunraku puppet theatre) Alexander...
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    senbonzakura (1747, The Thousand Cherry Blossoms of Yoshitsune), and Kanadehon chūshingura (1748, The Treasure of the Loyal Retainers). Namiki died while writing...
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