About the show A poor farmer, Ise, wishes for power to trap anything that climbs his orange tree by saying “Grip Am”; he uses it to control his troubles and trap the Angel of Death, while his wife Aso has her own wish.
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Wikipedia source revision : Wikipedia contributors, Grip Am; revision 1359935828. History: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grip%20Am&action=history ; license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Synopsis paraphrased during individual-page model review. Catalog year basis: The article cites a 2017 edition of the play and no stage premiere; use 2017 as an estimated first-publication fallback.
Catalog year research: Grip Am : Reviewed 11 November 2026. Scholarly thesis dates Grip Am to 1973; EBSCO instead associates it with 1985, and a performer recalls staging it in 1985/86. 2017 is demonstrably a late edition, not original work year. Use earliest sourced 1973 work-date estimate, retain flag because first production unresolved and sources conflict. This assessment supersedes earlier catalog-year fallback notes for this record.