On 2007-07-09 10:20:03 -0700, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> said:

> While in periodic trips Japan over the past few years I've gotten video 
> tapes and cassette tapes of bunraku theater. If I knew what they were I 
> might be able to chase down translations of some of them. But my 
> Japanese reading skills are sad, to say the least. I can't read the 
> titles or authors.
> 
> I've prepped a little page of images scanned from their covers. If 
> anybody would like to take a look and help me sort out which plays and 
> hopefully which authors that would be swell.
> 
>    http://tinyurl.com/27kf77
> 
> Any aid appreciated.

Surprisingly someone has responded via email with all I could want to 
know and more for which I  am very grateful indeed.

And I doubted usenet for just a moment...
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