| | OsakaPrints.com (Glossary) |
 | | The identification of actors depicted in ukiyo-e is often aided by the presence of jômon, but care must be taken not to confuse different actors of the same lineage. |
| | More specifically, the term jôruri derives from the medieval oral narrative Jôruri Gozen monogatari ("The Tale of Princess Jôruri"), which recounts a brief romance between the legendary Minamoto no Yoshitsune and a young woman who rescues him during an illness and reveals that she is the incarnation of Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Healing. |
| | By the seventeenth century the narrative and puppet styles of drama began to blend, and thus the term jôruri was transformed to mean an array of narrative chanting and singing accompanied by the samisen for the puppets (such as gidayû, its most important genre named after Takemoto Gidayû) and kabuki theater. |
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