Paulownia wood - Kiri Okura

Japanese: 桐大内蔵 - きりおおくら

?-? A female Kabuki actor and theater owner in the early Edo period.
She is said to be the daughter of Sakakiri, the granddaughter of the first Kiri-Cho-Kiri. In 1630, she gave a female dance performance at Nakabashi in Edo, and in 1661, she founded the Kiri-za troupe in Kobiki-cho, Edo. The "Diary of Matsudaira Yamato-no-kami" records that she gave a performance in Shirakawa in the entry for May 6, 1693.

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Japanese:

?－?　江戸時代前期の女歌舞伎の役者,座元。
初代桐長桐(きり-ちょうきり)の孫娘坂桐の娘という。寛永7年(1630)江戸中橋で女舞を興行,寛文元年(1661)江戸木挽(こびき)町に桐座を創設。「松平大和守(やまとのかみ)日記」元禄(げんろく)6年(1693)5月6日の条に白河で興行したとある。

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