Playwright name:

Tsubouchi Shôyô

Real Name: Tsubouchi Yûzô

Existence: 22nd day of the 5th lunar month of 1859 ^[1] ~ 28 February 1935

Career:

22nd day of the 5th lunar month of 1859 ^[1]: born in Ôta-juku ^[2], a station on the Nakasendô in the province of Mino.

1894: Shôyô wrote "Kiri Hitoha".

1896: Shôyô wrote "Maki-no-Kata".

February/March 1904: successful premiere at the Tôkyôza of Shôyô's drama "Kiri Hitoha" [more details].

May 1905: premiere of Shôyô's drama "Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu" in Ôsaka at the Kadoza, starring Kataoka Gatô III in the roles of Lady Yodo (Yodogimi) and Katagiri Katsumoto.

May 1905: premiere at the Tôkyôza of Shôyô's drama "Maki-no-Kata", with Nakamura Shikan V in the eponymous role of Maki-no-Kata.

March 1906: Shôyô's drama "Hototogisu Kojô no Rakugetsu" was produced for the first time in Tôkyô, at the Tôkyôza [casting].

November 1911: premiere at the Imperial Theater Shôyô's Nagauta-based dance-drama "Kanzan Jittoku" [more details].

1916: Shôyô wrote "En no Gyôja" ^[3].

June 1929: premiere at the Imperial Theater of Shôyô's dance-drama "Ryôkan to Komori" [more details].

28 February 1935: Shôyô died in Atami in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Comments:

Tsubouchi Shôyô was a writer, critic, playwright, translator, editor, educator, and professor at Waseda University. He also used the pen name Harunoya Oboro.

[1] The 22nd day of the 5th lunar month of the 6th year of the Ansei era was the 22nd of June 1859 in the western calendar.

[2] Nowadays the city of Minokamo in Gifu Prefecture.

[3] This drama was premiered in September 1949, in Tôkyô at the Imperial Theater, with Onoe Shôroku II in the role of the ascetic and mystic En no Gyôja.

Tsubouchi Shôyô