''Amayo no Sanbai Kigen'' (雨夜三盃機嫌) is an illustrated

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depicting forty-four

Kamigata Kamigata (上方) was the colloquial term for a region today called Kansai (''kan'', barrier; ''sai'', west) in Japan. This large area encompasses the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. The term is used particularly when discussing elements of Edo ...

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s of the time. It was originally published in 1693 as a

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book by Bokutekian and Sōgyū. Some of the actors included are: * Ogino Samanojō I * Yamashita Saizaburō * Mizuki Tatsunosuke I * Sodeoka Masanosuke * Tamamura Tsuyanosuke *

Yoshizawa Ayame I Yoshizawa Ayame I (初代吉沢菖蒲) (1673-15 July 1729) was an early Kabuki actor, and the most celebrated ''onnagata'' (specialist in female roles) of his time. His thoughts on acting, and on ''onnagata'' acting in particular, were recorded ...

* Onogawa Ugenji * Saruwaka Kosanza * Sodesaki Karyū I *

Sakata Tōkurō Sakata may refer to: People * Jeanne Sakata, American actress and playwright * Lenn Sakata (Lenn Haruki Sakata) (born 1954), former American professional baseball player * Harold Sakata (Toshiyuki "Harold" Sakata) (1920–1982), American Olympic ...

Iwai Heijirō Iwai or IWAI may refer to: * Iwai (surname) *Iwai, Ibaraki, a city in Japan *Iwai Station, a railway station in Minamibōsō, Chiba Prefecture, Japan *Iwai Rebellion, a rebellion against the Yamato court that took place in Tsukushi Province, Japan ...

* Sodesaki Iroha

References

Amayo no Sanbai Kigen at Kabuki21.com
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