Takeda Izumo II (1691â€"1756) was a Japanese playwright. The successor
to Chikimatsu Monzaemon at the Takemoto Theater, he wrote the three
most celebrated period plays in the bunraku repertoire: Sugawara and
the Secrets of Calligraphy (1746), Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry
Trees (1747), and The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (1748). Leonard
Pronko writes that although Chikamatsu’s writing “possesses
superior literary qualities, Izumo’s has an undeniable variety,
richness, and theatricality.†[1]
to Chikimatsu Monzaemon at the Takemoto Theater, he wrote the three
most celebrated period plays in the bunraku repertoire: Sugawara and
the Secrets of Calligraphy (1746), Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry
Trees (1747), and The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (1748). Leonard
Pronko writes that although Chikamatsu’s writing “possesses
superior literary qualities, Izumo’s has an undeniable variety,
richness, and theatricality.†[1]
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