Background
Harimanoshojo Takemoto was born in about 1737. His real name: Nakamo-miya-Choemon.
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Harimanoshojo Takemoto was born in about 1737. His real name: Nakamo-miya-Choemon.
He began life as a merchant but later turned a professional Gidayu reciter and became a successor to Takemoto Gidayii II. In 1737 he was allowed to call himself Takemoto Harimanoshojo.