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*''Japanese'': 加賀見山旧錦絵 ''(kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e)''
*''Japanese'': 加賀見山旧錦絵 ''(kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e)''
''Kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e'', popularly known as ''Onna Chûshingura'', or "Women's [[Kanadehon Chushingura|Chûshingura]]," is a [[kabuki]] & [[ningyo joruri|bunraku]] play about ladies-in-waiting seeking blood revenge against someone who shamed their mistress so much that the mistress committed suicide.
''Kaga miyama kokyou nishiki-e'', popularly known as ''Onna Chûshingura'', or "Women's [[Kanadehon Chushingura|Chûshingura]]," is a [[kabuki]] & [[ningyo joruri|bunraku]] play by [[Yo Yotai|Yô Yôtai]], about ladies-in-waiting seeking blood revenge against someone who shamed their mistress so much that the mistress committed suicide.
The play is based on a historical event which took place in [[1723]]. A lady-in-waiting was so humiliated by a more senior lady-in-waiting that she committed suicide; Yamaji, a maidservant to the woman who killed herself, then avenged her mistress by killing the senior lady-in-waiting.
The play is based on a historical event which took place in [[1723]]. A lady-in-waiting was so humiliated by a more senior lady-in-waiting that she committed suicide; Yamaji, a maidservant to the woman who killed herself, then avenged her mistress by killing the senior lady-in-waiting.