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Japanese: 累物 - かさねもの

A branch of Kabuki and Ningyo Joruri. During the Shoo to Kanbun period (1652-73), in the village of Hanyu in Shimousa Province (present-day Mitukaido City, Ibaraki Prefecture), an ugly woman named Rui was driven mad by jealousy and killed by her husband Yoemon in the Kinugawa River. The family was haunted by the grudge, but was freed by the prayers of the pilgrim Yuten, who was traveling around the country. This story of the Hozoji Temple karma spread to the cities with the opening of the Hozoji Temple and the publication of "Tales of the Dead and Freedom." This story was first adapted into Kabuki in "Ozumo Fujito Genji" (1731). After Date Kurabe Okuni Kabuki (1778), his works were often cast in period dramas based on the Date Disturbance, and the plot in which the heroine looks in the mirror and realizes she is ugly, and is then killed out of jealousy at her husband's loyalty to his master, Princess Utagata, created a long line of plays.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歌舞伎，人形浄瑠璃の一系統。承応～寛文期(1652‐73)，下総国羽生（はにゆう）村(現，茨城県水海道市)で，嫉妬に狂った醜婦の累が鬼怒川で夫与右衛門に殺され，怨念は一族にたたるが，廻国中の祐天上人の祈念で解脱するという法蔵寺因縁譚が，法蔵寺の開帳や《死霊解脱物語》の出版で都会に流布した。これが《大角力藤戸源氏（おおずもうふじとげんじ）》(1731)で初めて歌舞伎化された。《伊達競阿国戯場（だてくらべおくにかぶき）》(1778)以後は，たいてい伊達騒動を脚色した時代物の世界に繰り込まれるとともに，そのヒロインが鏡を見て自分を醜婦と知り，主人歌形姫に対する夫の忠義に嫉妬し殺される段取りが，累物の系脈を作った。

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