Namiki Shōzō II (並木正三) (died 1807) was a ''kabuki'' playwright and relative of the more prominent

Namiki Shōzō I Namiki Shōzō I (並木正三) (1730–1773) was a prominent Japanese playwright who produced roughly 100 works for ''bunraku'' (puppet theater) and for ''kabuki is a classical form of Japanese dance- drama. Kabuki theatre is known for its ...

. Though none of his surviving plays are prominent ones, he may have been the author of the 1801 '' Kezairoku'' (or ''Gezairoku''), a kabuki playwriting manual.

References

*Takaya, Ted T. (1985). "Namiki Shōzō." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd. Kabuki playwrights 1807 deaths Year of birth missing Japanese dramatists and playwrights Japanese writers of the Edo period 18th-century Japanese writers 19th-century Japanese writers 18th-century Japanese people 19th-century Japanese people {{Japan-writer-stub