Akugenta

A historical drama written by Matsui Shoyo (Shoo). Four scenes. It was first performed at the Meijiza Theater in September 1899 (Meiji 32) by Ichikawa Sadanji I and others. It was published in the Literary Club in November of the same year. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name that Matsui Shoyo wrote and serialized in the Hochi Shimbun in 1895, at the request of Sadanji. Based on the conflict between the Genpei and Taira clans during the Heiji Rebellion, it depicts the confrontation between Minamoto no Yoshihira (Akugenta) and Taira no Shigemori, and how Akugenta is captured at Ishiyama-dera Temple, but his life is saved by the intercession of Princess Hanasaki, and he is brought to Rokuhara. Matsuyo wrote the play with the intention of linking writers with the pear-eared world, but was sabotaged by the theater's playwright. It became a monumental play as it was the first historical drama written by an outside literary scholar to be taken up in the world of Kabuki.

[Hiroyuki Fujiki]

"Complete Collection of Meiji Literature 85: Meiji Historical Dramas" edited by Koji Toita (1969, Chikuma Shobo)

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松居松葉(しょうよう)（松翁）作の史劇。4場。1899年（明治32）9月明治座で、初世市川左団次らにより初演。同年11月『文芸倶楽部(くらぶ)』に発表。1895年『報知新聞』に連載した自作の同名小説を、左団次の依頼で脚色したもの。平治(へいじ)の乱の源平両家の抗争を素材に、源義平(よしひら)（悪源太）と平重盛(しげもり)の対立と、悪源太が石山寺で捕らえられるが花咲姫の取りなしで命を助けられ、六波羅(ろくはら)に引き立てられていくまでを描く。松葉は、文人と梨園(りえん)を結び付ける意図で書いたが、座付き作者の妨害工作にあった。局外文学者の書いた史劇が歌舞伎(かぶき)界で取り上げられた最初の作品として記念碑的戯曲となる。

［藤木宏幸］

『戸板康二編『明治文学全集85　明治史劇集』（1969・筑摩書房）』

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