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was one of Japan's leading women playwrights of post war Japan, she was considered to be a women who was most respected as a realist Japanese playwright.〔Goodman, David G. "Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s The Return of the Gods". United States: An East Gate Book, 1998.Print.〕 She was known for her shingeki plays, but had written some classical puppet bunraku and kabuki dramas, and later became a scriptwriter for both radio and television shows.〔Goodman, David G. "The Quest for Salvation in Japan’s Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo." Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance. Eds. David Jortner, Keiko McDonald, and Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. United States: Lexington Books, 2006. Web.〕 Along with Akimoto’s childhood, World War II played a significant role in her career. As a realist playwright, she used her work to make political statements in order to warn the greater Japanese community that the government was trying to continue their pre-war imperial system which was fulfilled with capitalism, militarism, and patriarchy.〔 == Childhood == Akimoto was born in Yokohama on January 2, 1911, to a family of six consisting of her mother, father, and four older brothers; one of them being Fujio Akimoto, who was a haiku poet.〔Japan Playwrights Association, ed. Half a Century of Japanese Theatre. Vol 7. Japan: Kinokuniya Company Ltd. 2005.Print.〕 Earlier in her life at the age of 3 her father died. In addition, to her father's death at a young age she was diagnosed with pleurisy when she was in the third grade. Due to Akimoto’s fatigue from her illness and her family's belief in traditional gender roles, the family did not see the need for Akimoto to extend her education, so she attended public school for the minimum required years.〔 For many years of her childhood, Akimoto was home schooled with the help of her two older brothers. It was her brothers’ novels, which were accessible to her in the house as a child, that sparked her fascination with drama. She became a voracious reader as child and acquired theatrical language from reading Japanese classics that later helped develop her career as a playwright.〔name="The Columbia Encyclopedia">〕 She gained inspiration to be a part of the literary field from reading western Greek tragedies, Ibsen’s modern plays, Japanese noh plays, and Chikamatsu Monzaemon's jōruri during her childhood.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akimoto Matsuyo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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