Shishi Bunroku, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shishi Bunroku

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1893

Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1969

Profession: writer, playwright, theatre manager, novelist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Bunroku Shishi (a pen name for Toyoo Iwata; b.
July 1, 1893, Yokohama; d.
Dec.
13, 1969) was a Japanese writer and director of the Bungakuza Theater in Tokyo. In 1922 he traveled to France to study modern French theater, and worked in the atelier of Jacques Copeau.