In this video, we check out the eleven scenes most frequently carried out from the epic jidaimono play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (“Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees”).
Written in 1747 for the bunraku puppet theatre by the playwrights Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi Shōraku and Namiki Senryū I, the identical workforce that produced Kanadehon Chūshingura and Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami, the opposite two classical masterpieces of the kabuki repertoire.
This covers 4 of the 5 acts of the unique play. The lacking first one, together with the scenes Ōuchi, Kitasaga, Kawagoe Jōshi and Heisoto, could be very hardly ever carried out these days. You can learn the plot of this act right here: https://www.kabuki21.com/ysz.php There can also be an exquisite English translation of the whole bunraku script by Stanleigh H. Jones Jr., in his e book “Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees: A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater”.
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