Namiki ShÅzÅ I
Namiki ShÅzÅ I (並木æ£ä¸‰) (1730–1773) was a prominent Japanese playwright who produced roughly 100 works for bunraku (puppet theater) and for kabuki. ShÅzÅ is also credited with inventing the revolving stage (回り舞å°, mawaributai), one of many tricks of stagecraft used extensively in kabuki, and with popularizing the use of trapdoors (セリ上ã’, seriage).
ShÅzÅ left bunraku in 1751; adapting plays from bunraku to kabuki was a very common practice, and it is likely that many of ShÅzÅ's kabuki plays began as puppet productions.
His roughly one hundred plays were mostly jidai-mono (時代物, historical plays), and include Keisei ama no hagoromo (The Feathery Garment from Heaven, 1753), Sanjikkoku yobune no hajimari (The Beginning of the Heavy Cargo Ships on the Yodo River, 1758), and Sanzen-sekai yarikuri Årai (Kin'emon the Notorious Pirate, 1772).
References
- Takaya, Ted T. (1985). "Namiki ShÅzÅ." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.
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