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Chūshingura (忠臣蔵, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) is the title given to fictionalized accounts in Japanese literature, theater, and film that relate to the historical incident involving the forty-seven rōnin and their mission to avenge the death of their master, Asano Naganori.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
During this portion of the Edo period, the major dramatists preferred not to write for the kabuki theater since the kabuki actors frequently departed from the texts to invent parts and aggrandize their own roles; however, Chūshingura was so successful that it was almost immediately adapted for the kabuki theater as well.
Saegusa is best known for his opera version Chushingura of the well-known kabuki epic of the Forty-seven Ronin/Chūshingura with a libretto by the novelist Shimada Masahiko. Written over a period of 10 years, the opera was most recently performed at the New National Theatre, Tokyo in 2002.
The Loyal 47 Ronin (忠臣蔵, Chūshingura) is a 1958 color jidaigeki (period drama) Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. With box office earnings of ¥410 million, it was the most successful film of 1958 in Japan. [1] Furthermore, it was the second-highest-grossing film of the 1950s in Japan. [2]
Chushingura was distributed by Toho in Japan on November 3, 1962. [1] The film was Toho's fourth highest-grossing film of 1962 and was the 10th highest-grossing film in Japan that year. [4] The film was released by Toho International with English subtitles and an English narration by Michael Higgins with a 108-minute running time on October 10 ...
Japanese enamel work became sought after in the west and sourced many pieces from Toshima, which is the origin of Owari cloisonne. As of 1918, at least fifty cloisonné artists worked there. [2] The company was given an Imperial Warrant of Appointment to the Japanese court. Ando cloisonné was also presented as state gifts.
Music portal This category is for articles about musical instrument makers from the Asian country of Japan . Classification : People : By occupation : Artisans / Music people : Musical instrument makers : By nationality : Japanese