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Akimoto Matsuyo
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- She was born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 1911. She was a female playwright. Her elder brother was the haiku poet Fujio Akimoto. In 1946, she joined Jūrō Miyoshi’s drama study group and began writing plays after she turned 30. In 1947, she published her first play, Keijin (Light Dust), and in 1949, her play Reifuku (Ceremonial Clothes) was staged by Haiyuza Theater Company, attracting significant attention. Following these successes, she released numerous works based on the classics and local legends, and she established a unique style of folk theater through plays such as Mono Iwanu Onna-tachi (Silent Women), Hitachibō Kaison, and Kasabata Shikibu Kō. After parting ways with Miyoshi, she went on to work in the broadcasting field, including radio and television. In 1979, the first performance of Chikamatsu Shinjū Monogatari (Suicide for Love), directed by Yukio Ninagawa at the Imperial Theatre, was a huge success. Following this, she also contributed works to commercial theater. Her television scripts include Kotozute (The Message, 1954, NTV), Oka no Ue (On the Hill, 1956, NHK), Chōno Yume (The Butterfly’s Dream, 1959, Radio Tokyo [now TBS]), Musume Arite (Having a Daughter, 1962, Fuji TV), Umi yori Fukaki (Deeper than the Sea, 1965, RKB), and Tajima-ya no Onatsu (Onatsu of the Tajima-ya, 1986, NHK). She died of lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 90.
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