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A Kabuki dance drama. Tokiwazu. Lyrics by Tsubouchi Shoyo, music by Tokiwazu Mojibei II, choreography by Fujima Kan'emon II. It premiered in September 1914 (Taisho 3) at the Imperial Theater in Tokyo, with Ona played by Onoe Baiko VI and Matsumoto Koshiro VII. Based on the love story of Ona Seijuro, the play depicts Ona, who has gone mad after losing her lover Seijuro, wandering the country roads in autumn, with a rich poetic sentiment and pathos, featuring a village boy, a drunken horseman, and an elderly couple from Junrei. Shoyo, who advocated artistic reform of Japanese dance in "New Music Drama Theory," tried to put his theory into practice in this work, which was well received and became a representative work of the so-called new dance.

[Toshiaki Matsui]

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歌舞伎(かぶき)舞踊劇。常磐津(ときわず)。坪内逍遙(しょうよう)作詞、2世常磐津文字兵衛(もじべえ)作曲、2世藤間勘右衞門(かんえもん)振付け。1914年（大正3）9月東京・帝国劇場で6世尾上(おのえ)梅幸のお夏、7世松本幸四郎の馬士(まご)により初演。お夏清十郎の情話に取材し、恋人清十郎に死別して乱心したお夏が秋の田舎(いなか)道をさまよう姿を、里の子、酔った馬士、順礼の老夫婦などを配して詩情豊かに哀れに描く。「新楽劇論」で日本舞踊の芸術的改革を提唱した逍遙が、自己の理論の実践を試みた作品で、好評を得て、いわゆる新舞踊の代表作となった。

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