Kawatake Mokuami
Japanese dramatist of Kabuki / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kawatake Mokuami (河竹黙阿弥) (birth name Yoshimura Yoshisaburō; 吉村芳三郎) (1 March 1816 – 22 January 1893) was a Japanese dramatist of Kabuki. It has been said[by whom?] that "as a writer of plays of Kabuki origin, he was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Japan has ever known".[1] He wrote 150 or so plays over the course of his 58-year career,[2] covering a wide variety of themes, styles, and forms, including short dance pieces, period plays (jidaimono), contemporary genre pieces (sewamono), tragedies and comedies, as well as adaptations of foreign (Western) stories,[3] though he is perhaps most famous for his shiranamimono, plays featuring sympathetic or tragic rogues and thieves.[4] For the greater part of his career he wrote under the professional name Kawatake Shinshichi, only taking the name Mokuami on his retirement from the stage in 1881.