"En no Gyoja Omine Sakura"

...Hanji is said to have been a dissolute young man, but he became a disciple of the second Takeda Izumo (Gaki) and became a playwright for the Takemotoza, and he took the surname of Chikamatsu, as he admired him. His first work, En no Gyoja Omine Sakura (Ritsaku Izumo), written in 1751 (1st year of the Horeki era), was the basis for Omo no Seyama Onna Teikin, and the ideas and style of Hanji's later works are evident. From then on, during the first half of the Horeki era (1751-64), he was listed as a collaborator on new Takemotoza works, alongside such predecessors as Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku, and Yoshida Kanshi, and in 1757 (7th year of the Horeki era), he again distinguished himself with Mukashi Otoko Kasugano no Komachi, which he completed posthumously, and in the second half of the Horeki era, the Takemotoza works were strongly influenced by Hanji....

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…半二は青年時は放蕩したと伝えるが，2世竹田出雲(外記)の門に入って竹本座の作者となり，近松に私淑してその姓を名のった。初作の1751年(宝暦1)《役行者大峰桜》(立作者出雲)は《妹背山婦女庭訓》の母体となる作で，思想や作法に後年の半二の特色が認められる。以後宝暦期(1751‐64)前半は竹田出雲，三好松洛，吉田冠子ら先輩に伍して，竹本座の新作に合作者として名を連ね，出雲が没した57年(宝暦7)に遺稿を完成させる形をとった《昔男春日野小町》で再び頭角をあらわし，宝暦後半期竹本座の作品には半二色が濃厚となっていく。…

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