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Ehon Taikōki - Amagasaki Kankyo

Ehon Taikōki - Amagasaki Kankyo

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Status

Released

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

絵本太功記 尼ヶ崎閑居の場

Production Companies

Shochiku

Description

The play "Ehon Taikōki" was originally written for the puppet theater (Bunraku) and staged for the first time in 1799 in Ōsaka at the Toyotakeza. It was adapted for Kabuki the next year by Nagawa Tokusuke I. The play consisted originally of thirteen acts, one act for each day that passed between Akechi Mitsuhide's murder of Oda Nobunaga and his death at the hand of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The tenth act is the only one which has survived. This act tells of an incident during the battle in which Mitsuhide was finally defeated.