Background
Sugiyama Tangonojo was born in 1650 Kyoto, Japan. Real name: Shichirozaemon Sugiyama.
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Sugiyama Tangonojo was born in 1650 Kyoto, Japan. Real name: Shichirozaemon Sugiyama.
Learned joruri reciting from Kengyo Takino.
He went to Tokyo (1616) and started a puppet joruri theater. Often performed in the presence of the Shogun.
Tangonojo Sugiyama later became a Buddhist priest, calling himself Hozan Kochi.