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The great kabuki playwright of the late Edo period who had been a pupil of the kabuki playwright Tsuruya Namboku V. In 1881 he relinquished his stage name of Kawatake Shinshichi II and adopted the name Kawatake Mokuami II. He had a talent for poetry and his plays drew appeal from their faithfully realistic portrayals of characters. He established his reputation by writing "kizewamono".
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