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A Girl Selling Peaches

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A Jitude intends to have a beautiful girl Usagwa as a kept woman, but he cannot seduce her because she has a sweetheart. Then he takes her by force. The Jitude keeps two women beside his wife, and these two women who are jealous of Usagwa bully her with his lawful wife. In the meantime, they make plans of killing her, saying to the Jitude, "Usagwa was burnt to death by her own careless treatment of fire. They push her down over a cliff. Fortunately her fiance helps her. She recovers her consciousness, owing to his treatment. But he blames her for her unfaithfulness. The Jitude who now knows the details tells him that she has had no relations with him and allows them to get married.

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Written by Moriyoshi Tokashiki
The first performance was in Kyuuyooza in 1914. Tokashiki and Yoshiji Hachimine were popular partners.


Typical theatrical company putting on a good performance of the play
Kyuuyooza Kudakashoukichigeinoukikaku(Hiyuuza)
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