Namiki SÅsuke
Namiki Sōsuke (Japanese并 木 宗 辅, Namiki Senryu, * 1695 in Osaka, † October 25, 1751 ) was a Japanese Bunraku and Kabukiautor.
Namiki Sōsuke was born as Matsuya Sōsuke. He was a Buddhist priest in Mihara, before he decided to be an author. Since 1726, he was alternating with Nishizawa Ippu the Tatesakusha on Toyotake - Bunrakutheater in Osaka. Together with Yasuda Kabun he wrote to 1732 fourteen dramas that were partially significant for the history of Japanese puppet theater. 1733-35 produced some pieces in collaboration with his students Namiki Saisuke. The following years he wrote some dramas alone and was engaged in the revision of the pieces by other authors. In 1741 he interrupted his literary work. The following year, he began work as a Tatesakusha at various Kabuki theaters in Osaka. In 1745 he took the name Namiki Senryu and moved back to the Bunraku theater. In the following five years he wrote as sole author for the Takemoto Theater more dramas. However, he had his greatest successes as a co -author together with Takeda Izumo II, Miyoshi and Shoraku. Together they wrote the so-called " Three Great Plays " Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami ( 1746 ), Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura ( 1747 ) and Kanadehon Chūshingura (1748 ). Three historical dramas that are part of the repertoire of Kabuki and Bunrakutheater to the present day. Other collaborative works of the three authors were Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami ( 1745), Futatsu Chocho Kuruwa Nikki ( 1749) and Genpei Nunobiki Taki ( 1749).
In 1750, Senryu changed its name back to Namiki Sōsuke and returned to the Toyotake - theater for which he wrote his masterpiece, the drama Ichinotani Futaba Gunki ( "Chronicle of the Battle of Ichinotani " ) in the following year. He died before the completion of the drama; research, however, assumes that he was the author of the greater part of this piece. Shortly after his death, he was honored by some contemporaries as the greatest dramatist since Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
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- Samuel L. Head: New Kabuki Encyclopedia. A Revised Adaptation of Kabuki Jiten. Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut and London, 1997, ISBN 0-313-29288-4, p 456
- Haruo Shirane: Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900, Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780231144155S. 179 ff