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While kabuki continued to be performed chiefly only at the few licensed theaters in each city, small theaters called ''[[yose]]'' sprang up over the course of the 18th century, throughout Edo and other cities, hosting performances of a wide variety of other arts, including ''[[rakugo]]'', ''[[joruri|jôruri]]'' chanting, stage magic, and shadowplay shows.<ref>Ikegami, 316.</ref>
While kabuki continued to be performed chiefly only at the few licensed theaters in each city, small theaters called ''[[yose]]'' sprang up over the course of the 18th century, throughout Edo and other cities, hosting performances of a wide variety of other arts, including ''[[rakugo]]'', ''[[joruri|jôruri]]'' chanting, stage magic, and shadowplay shows.<ref>Ikegami, 316.</ref>
The theatre district, located near the city's commercial center at Nihonbashi, was destroyed in a fire in [[1841]]. Following this, the authorities obliged the theaters to rebuild in Saruwaka-chô, a neighborhood on the northeastern edges of the city, near [[Asakusa]] (and the Buddhist temple of [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]]), and the [[Yoshiwara]].<ref>Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 94.</ref>
The theatre district, located near the city's commercial center at Nihonbashi, was destroyed in a fire in [[1841]]. Following this, the authorities obliged the theaters to rebuild in Saruwaka-chô, a neighborhood on the northeastern edges of the city, near [[Asakusa]] (and the Buddhist temple of [[Senso-ji|Sensô-ji]]), and the [[Yoshiwara]].<ref>Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 94.</ref> Saruwaka-chô is said to have been named after [[Saruwaka Kanzaburo|Saruwaka Kanzaburô]], predecessor or progenitor of the Edo actor. The Nakamura-za was placed in Saruwaka-chô 1-chôme (the "first" section of the district), the Ichimura-za in 2-chôme, and the [[Kawarazaki-za]] (and later, the Morita-za) in 3-chôme.<ref>Monument at former site of the Morita-za, at Asakusa 6-26-11.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/10568775095/in/photostream/]</ref>
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