| Brenda Wong Aoki - all works | The Legend of the |
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| The Legend of the Morning Glory , written by Brenda Wong Aoki, with music by Mark Izu, Janet Koike and Christopher Yohmei. The haunting love tale, based on a story from the Kabuki, tells of a girl, the daughter of a powerful samurai, who meets and falls in love with a boy from a poor family. When the boy’s love poem about the morning glory blows into the girl’s boat, she is forever determined to marry him, turning down each of the rich suitors her father has lined up for her. Finally she runs away, determined to marry the boy. Unaccustomed to the world outside her father’s castle, she cries herself blind and makes a living as The Morning Glory, an itinerate storyteller famed for her tale of lost love. In the end, the two lovers meet one last time at a lonely inn on the banks of the Oi River. |
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