Arashi Kiyosaburo - Arashi Kiyosaburo

Japanese: 嵐喜世三郎 - あらしきよさぶろう

...This incident, which had been widely circulated through Saikaku's novel "Koshoku Gonin Onna" and Utasaibun, was first dramatized in January 1706 (Hoei 3) in the kabuki kyogen "Oshichi Utasaibun" at the Osaka Arashi Sanemon-za. At that time, Oshichi, played by the first Arashi Kiyosaburo, was a big hit, and his family crest was used for Oshichi thereafter. Later, puppet plays such as "Yaoya Oshichi," "Edo Murasaki Revised," and "Date Musume Koi no Higanoko" were created, while the kabuki play "Sono Mukashi Koi no Edozome" established the current standard form of Oshichi plays. ...

From "Yaoya Oshichi"

...A woman from the Edo period famous as a heroine in Joruri and Kabuki. She is said to be the daughter of Yaoya Tarobei of Hongo Oiwake in Edo. On December 28, 1682 (Tenwa 2), a fire broke out at Komagome Daienji Temple, burning Shitaya, Asakusa, and Honjo in the east, and spreading to Hongo, Kanda, and Nihonbashi in the south, destroying 75 feudal lord residences, 166 hatamoto residences, and 95 temples and shrines, and killing 3,500 people. During that fire, Oshichi, whose house was burned down, took refuge in Komagome Shosenji Temple (one theory is Enjoji Temple), where she fell in love with a temple page named Ikuta Shonosuke (one theory is Sahyoe). After returning home, she missed Shonosuke so much that she thought she could meet him if there was a fire, and set fire to him on the night of March 2 the following year, but the fire was quickly put out, she was captured and paraded around, and on March 29, she was burned to death at the Suzugamori execution ground, which is the true story. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Arashi Kiyosaburo" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…西鶴の小説《好色五人女》や歌祭文を通して一般に流布していたこの事件が初めて劇化されたのは，1706年(宝永3)1月大坂嵐三右衛門座の歌舞伎狂言《お七歌祭文》である。そのおり，とくに初世嵐喜世三郎のお七が大当りで，以後彼の定紋がお七の紋に用いられるようになったという。その後，人形浄瑠璃では《八百屋お七》《潤色江戸紫》《伊達娘恋緋鹿子（だてむすめこいのひがのこ）》等が作られ，歌舞伎では《其往昔恋江戸染（そのむかしこいのえどぞめ）》で現行のお七劇の定型が確立した。…

【八百屋お七】より

…浄瑠璃，歌舞伎のヒロインとして有名な江戸時代の女性。江戸本郷追分の八百屋太郎兵衛の娘という。1682年(天和2)12月28日，駒込大円寺から出火，東は下谷，浅草，本所を焼き，南は本郷，神田，日本橋に及び，大名屋敷75，旗本屋敷166，寺社95を焼失，焼死者3500名という大火があった。その際，家を焼かれ，駒込正仙寺(一説に円乗寺)に避難したお七は寺小姓の生田庄之助(一説に左兵衛)と恋仲となった。家に戻ったのちも庄之助恋しさのあまり，火事があれば会えると思い込み，翌年3月2日夜放火したがすぐ消し止められ，捕らえられて引廻しのうえ，3月29日鈴ヶ森の刑場で火刑に処せられたというのが実説である。…

※「嵐喜世三郎」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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