Sensuke Suga

Date of birth and death unknown. Author of Joruri Gidayubushi (Joruri gidayubushi) from the late Edo period. The son of a doctor, he worked as a tayu (courtesy performer) at the Toyotakeza theater, but after the theater left in 1765 (Meiwa 2), he built a theater near Kitahorie City and became the theater's director. He became a playwright two years later, and wrote more than 30 pieces over the next 20 years, many of which were collaborations, and he excelled in sewamono (domestic stories). His representative sewamono works include "Somemoyoimose no Kadomatsu," "Date Musume Koi no Higanoko," "Keisei Koi Hikyaku," and "Katsura River Renri no Shigarami," as well as his period piece "Setsubun Gappo Gatsuji." He displayed a great talent for adapting and revising previous works, and together with Chikamatsu Hanji of the Takemotoza theater, he decorated the final period of prosperity of Gidayu-bushi.

[Jiro Yamamoto]

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生没年未詳。江戸後期の浄瑠璃義太夫節(じょうるりぎだゆうぶし)の作者。医者の子で、豊竹座(とよたけざ)の太夫(たゆう)を勤めていたが、1765年（明和2）豊竹座退転以後、北堀江市の側(いちのかわ)に劇場を建て座本となった。翌々年から作者となり、以来20余年間に三十数編書いたが、合作も多く、世話物を得意とした。世話物の代表作に『染模様妹背門松(そめもよういもせのかどまつ)』『伊達娘恋緋鹿子(だてむすめこいのひがのこ)』『けいせい恋飛脚(こいのひきゃく)』『桂川連理柵(かつらがわれんりのしがらみ)』など、時代物に『摂州合邦辻(せっしゅうがっぽうがつじ)』。先行作を翻案改作することに優れた才能を発揮、竹本座の近松半二とともに義太夫節の最後の繁栄時代を飾った。

［山本二郎］

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