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First performance
  
1860

Playwright
  
Kawatake Mokuami

Sannin Kichisa Kuruwa no Hatsugai

Similar
  
Benten Kozō, Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, Sugawara Denju Tenarai K, Kanjinchō, Kanadehon Chūshingura

Sannin Kichisa Kuruwa no Hatsugai (Japanese: 三人吉三廓初買, "Three Kichisaburōs Go Shopping at the New Year in the Pleasure Quarters") is a Japanese kabuki play in seven acts by Kawatake Mokuami that premièred at the Ichimura-za theatre in Edo during the New Year 1860. It is popularly known as Sannin Kichisa, and belongs to the sewamono and shiranamimono genres.

The play was not well-received; thirty years later it was re-performed in an abbreviated version called Sannin Kichisa Tomoe no Shiranami (三人吉三巴白浪), dropping a scene in the pleasure quarters (遊郭) in Yoshiwara that had made up a part of the original title. This revived version was a hit and has become a representative work that continues to be performed.

References

Sannin Kichisa Kuruwa no Hatsugai Wikipedia


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