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The Grateful Cormorant

(水映縁友綱) (Mizuni utsuru enishi no tomozuna)

First Staged: 1962
Reference: Bunraku July 1991 Performance Program

Written By: Sumi Fusako (鷲見房子)

Performances:

• May 1973 Asahiza: The Grateful Cormorant
• July 1991: The Grateful Cormorant

Kashira:

• Baba (婆)
• Musume (娘)
• Genta (源太)
• Hagataki (端敵)
• Hayaku (端役)
• Shūto (舅)

Characters:

• Old female cormorant (鵜の婆)
• Yohei (与兵衛)
• Santaro (三太郎)
• Ino (猪乃)
• Yozaemon (与左衛門)
• Chief cormorant (鵜の尉)
• Yozaemon's wife (与左衛門女房)
• Comorants (鵜の鳥)
• Ouno (お鵜乃 実は鵜の女)