Takeda Izumo II (1691–1756) was a Japanese playwright. The successor to

Chikamatsu Monzaemon , real name , was a Japanese dramatist of jōruri, the form of puppet theater that later came to be known as bunraku, and the live-actor drama, kabuki. The ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' has written that he is "widely regarded as the greatest Jap ...

at the Takemoto Theater, Osaka, he wrote the three most celebrated period plays in the ''

bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Three kinds of performers take part in a performance: the or (puppeteers), the (chanters) ...

'' repertoire: ''Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy'' (1746), ''Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees'' (1747), and ''The Treasury of Loyal Retainers'' (1748). Leonard Pronko writes that although Chikamatsu's writing "possesses superior literary qualities, Izumo's has an undeniable variety, richness, and theatricality."

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{{authority control 1691 births 1756 deaths Bunraku Writers of the Edo period 18th-century Japanese dramatists and playwrights