Nanatsumen

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Nanatsumen
七つ面
Nanatsumen, from the series The Eighteen Great Kabuki Plays.jpg
A print of the play designed by Torii Tadakiyo and Torii Kiyosada (of the Torii school). The actor playing Kakoyo Akaemon is Ichikawa Danjūrō IX.
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Date premiered1740
Original languageJapanese

Nanatsumen (七つ面) is a play in the Kabuki repertoire, and one of the celebrated Kabuki Jūhachiban ("Eighteen Great Plays"). The play is known in English as The Seven Masks.

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