The 47 Ronin incident immediately inspired a succession of kabuki and bunraku plays; the first, 'The Night Attack at Dawn by the Soga' appeared only two weeks after the ronin died. It was shut down by the authorities, but many others soon followed, initially in Osaka and Kyoto, farther away from the capital. Some even took the story as far as Manila, to spread the story to the rest of Asia. The most successful of the adaptations was a bunraku puppet play called Kanadehon Ch?shingura (now simply called Ch?shingura, or 'Treasury of Loyal Retainers'), written in 1748 by Takeda Izumo and two associates; it was later adapted into a kabuki play, which is still one of Japan's most popular. In the play, to avoid the attention of the censors, the events are transferred into the distant past, to the 14th century reign of shogun Ashikaga Takauji. Asano became Enya Hangan Takasada, Kira became Ko no Moronao and ?ishi became ?boshi Yuranosuke Yoshio; the names of the rest of the ronin were disguised to varying degrees.