Kawatake Mokuami, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kawatake Mokuami

Japanese dramatist of Kabuki

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1816

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 22-Jan-1893

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, playwright

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kawatake Mokuami (?????) (birth name Yoshimura Yoshisaburo; ?????) (1 March 1816 – 22 January 1893) was a Japanese dramatist of Kabuki.
It has been said that "as a writer of plays of Kabuki origin, he was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Japan has ever known".
He wrote 150 or so plays over the course of his fifty-year career, covering a wide variety of themes, styles, and forms, including short dance pieces, period plays (jidaimono), contemporary genre pieces (sewamono), tragedies and comedies, as well as adaptations of foreign (Western) stories, though he is perhaps most famous for his shiranamimono, plays featuring sympathetic or tragic rogues and thieves.
For the greater part of his career he wrote under the professional name Kawatake Shinshichi, only taking the name Mokuami on his retirement from the stage in 1881.