The play is ‘Shōbudachi Tsui no Kyōkaku’ (菖蒲太刀対侠客), staged at the Ichimura-za Theatre in the 5th month of 1865.From the right, we have Onoe Kikujirō II as Nanchō Kunroku-hime (南朝九六姫), Ichimura Kakitsu IV as
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Shiki (1867-1902) has critical comments towards Basho’s poetry,doesn’t he? Besides Shiki, we have some other critics who don’t appreciate Basho as saint haijin. Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) the novelist calls Basho the villain. Bef
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