"Uta no toku megumi no yamabuki" - The Yamabuki of Uta no toku megumi

...The original form of the rakugo story Dokan, which is still known today, was created in Otoshibanashi Warau Hayashi (written by Hayashiya Shozo I) published in 1833 (Tenpo 4) by parodying this story. In kabuki, Utano Toku Megumi no Yamabuki (written by Kawatake Mokuami) premiered at the Shintomiza Theater in Tokyo in March 1887, and dramatized this oral tradition. The story features a low-class woman, Omura, who is Nadeshiko, the daughter of the Toshima family, who was destroyed by Dokan, and who attacks her father's enemy and Dokan. The area around Waseda University Baseball Stadium and Kansen-en Garden, west of Yamabuki-cho in Shinjuku Ward today, is commonly known as Yamabuki-no-Sato, and a monument to Yamabuki-no-Sato has been erected on the west bank of Omokage-bashi Bridge in Totsuka-cho, which is considered to be the site of the old story. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Katokue Yamabuki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…この話をもじって1833年(天保4)刊《落噺笑富林（おとしばなしわらうはやし）》(初世林屋正蔵著)中に現在伝えられる落語《道灌》の原形ができあがった。歌舞伎では1887年3月東京･新富座初演《歌徳恵山吹（うたのとくめぐみのやまぶき）》(河竹黙阿弥作)がこの口碑を劇化，賤女おむらは道灌に滅ぼされた豊島家の息女撫子で，父の仇と道灌に切りかかる趣向になっている。現在の新宿区山吹町より西方の早大球場，甘泉園のあたりを〈山吹の里〉と通称し，戸塚町面影橋西畔に〈山吹の里〉の碑が立てられ，その旧跡とされている。…

※「《歌徳恵山吹》」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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