"The Year of the Dog Satomi Eight Ripe Plums" - Utterly Doshisha and Mino Yatsufusa

...On the occasion of the Edo premiere, Bakin wrote in a letter to a friend that "Edo playwrights are so stricken with their failures that they turn the modern readings and other such works into kyogen plays," but in those days, dramatizing a novel was considered to affect a playwright's reputation. Furthermore, in leap April 1903, Edo Ichimuraza's Atarido Satomi no Yatsufusa (7 acts, written by Nakamura Jyusuke) also drew a large audience, but was praised for "the superior adaptation of the previous version." Then, in January 1852 (Kaei 5), Ichimura-za's "Legend of the Eight Satomi Dogs" (7 acts, written by Sakurada Jisuke III) featured a new script that included the story of Shino through to Konaya, as well as Taigyourou and Toyama (a Tomimoto-bushi rendition of the female Narukami), which was well received and became the basis for the compilation of a set edition.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Inu-sai Satomi Yajukuume" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…この江戸初演に際し，馬琴は〈江戸の芝居作者は負をしみにて，当今の読本抔（など）を狂言にいたし候事は甚（はなはだ）悪（にくみ）候〉云々と友人宛の書簡中に記しているが，この時代には小説を劇化することは，芝居作者の沽券（こけん）にかかわることとされていた。さらに38年閏4月江戸市村座の《戌歳里見八熟梅（あたりどしさとみのやつふさ）》(7幕，中村重助作)は同じく大入りとなったが，〈以前の方脚色優れり〉と評された。ついで52年(嘉永5)正月市村座の《里見八犬伝》(7幕，3世桜田治助作)は信乃のくだりから古那屋まで，ほかに対牛楼と富山(富本節で女鳴神の趣向)を加えた新脚本で，これは好評を博し，定本化の基礎となった。…

※「《戌歳里見八熟梅》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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