Bungo Yoshida (吉田 文吾 Yoshida Bungo?) (May 3, 1934 – January 16, 2008) was a Japanese puppeteer, who built a whole new audience for the traditional puppetering form of bunraku by combining it with rock music. Events 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries adopting the baptismal name of João Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object — a Puppet — in real time to create the illusion of life also known as Ningyō jōruri (ja 人形浄瑠璃 is a form of traditional Japanese Puppet theater founded in Osaka in 1684 Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums.
Born as Teruo Takahashi (高橋 照夫 Takahashi Teruo?) in 1934, Yoshida was initiated into the Bunraku theatre as a disciple of Tamagoro Yoshida II in 1951, changing his name to Kotama Yoshida. For twenty years, he performed mostly female roles, until switching to male roles in the 1970s. Concerned by falling audience numbers and a lack of young people taking up bunraku, Yoshida combined the ancient artform with his love of rock music, which he combined for a 1980 adaptation of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjū) with the music written and performed by Japanese rock musician Ryudo Uzaki, and occasionally with a live orchestra. The Love Suicides at Sonezaki ( Sonezaki Shinjū) is a love-suicide play by Chikamatsu. An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string brass woodwind sections and possibly a percussion section as well [1]
He was formerly married to the American television personality and essayist Edith Hanson. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Edith Hanson ( August 28, 1939 –) is an American television personality and Essayist, living in Tanabe Wakayama, Yoshida died at his home in Osaka on January 16, 2008 after suffering from liver cancer. is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC also called hepatoma) is a primary malignancy (cancer of the Liver. [2]
References
- ^ Japanese puppeteer Yoshida dies, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 17, 2008. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster.
- ^ 'Bunraku' theater puppeteer Yoshida Bungo dies at 73+, breitbart.com, January 16, 2008. Andrew Breitbart (born February 1 1969 is a Conservative author occasional guest commentator for political news programs and is best known as a part-time editor of the
External links
- Yoshida Bungo, Global Performing Arts Database