Kabuki Chronology - Kabuki Nenpyo

Japanese: 歌舞伎年表 - かぶきねんぴょう

Title. Eight volumes in total. Written by Ihara Toshiro. Edited and revised by Kawatake Shigetoshi and Yoshida Eiji (Teruji). Completed in May 1963. In 1894, Ihara Toshiro (Ihara Seien) was commissioned by Tsubouchi Shoyo to write a history of Kabuki for the Waseda Bungaku magazine. This was the opportunity for Ihara to decide that the study of theater history would be his life's work, and he began to create a Kabuki chronology based on Sekine Tadamasa's manuscript Theatrical Chronology. He continued to write it throughout his life, and the Edo section ran to 22 volumes, and the Kyoto-Osaka section to 21 volumes. He organized the manuscript and published it with Edo and Kyoto-Osaka contrasted between the top and bottom.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

書名。全8巻。伊原敏郎著。河竹繁俊･吉田暎二（てるじ）編集･校訂。1963年5月完結。1894年伊原敏郎(伊原青々園)は坪内逍遥の委嘱により《早稲田文学》誌上に歌舞伎の沿革を執筆することになった。これを機に伊原は演劇史研究を畢生の仕事と定め関根只誠の稿本《戯場年表》をもととして《歌舞伎年表》を作りはじめた。それは以後生涯書き続けられ，江戸之部22冊，京阪之部21冊に及んだ。この稿本を整理し江戸と京阪を上下で対照させて刊行した。

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