The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection, 1964-2003 57 linear feet
- Highlight
- performance in 1935, at the age of eleven. Her extensive involvement with the troupe began in the 1960s and
- Creator
- Adachi, Barbara C., 1924-2004
- Abstract Or Scope
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This collection contains slides, photographs with corresponding contact sheets and negatives, audio and video materials, performance-related printed materials, realia objects and personal papers. Visual, audio, video and printed materials, and realia objects are described at the item level with play titles, production dates, and performer names and other descriptors, if applicable. Personal papers are described at the folder level. 178 plays, 290 productions, and 183 performers of the National Bunraku Troupe are cited in this collection. Visual and printed materials for fifteen Living National Treasures of Japan in Bunraku are also included in this collection.