Umewaka Minoru (first generation)

...The number of traditional Kanze plays up until the end of the Edo period was 200, consisting of 110 in the inner group, 62 in the outer group, and 28 ben-noh. During the Meiji Restoration, the 22nd head of the Kanze school, Sanjuro Kiyotaka (1837-88), retreated to Shizuoka following the former shogun, and the Kanze school in Tokyo was protected by the first head of the school, Umewaka Minoru, and the 5th head of the branch family, Kanze Tetsunojo (Benisetsu), and avoided decline and moved towards recovery, but this was the indirect cause of the so-called Umewaka problem (a dispute over the issuance of licenses). The Umewaka family is an old family of Tanba Sarugaku (maiden name Umezu), but in the second half of the 15th century, during the reign of Kagehisa, they advanced to Kyoto, and their art pleased Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado, who gave them the title of Umewaka Dayu. ...

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…観世流の幕末までの伝承曲は，内組110番･外組62番に別能28番を加えた200番である。　明治維新のとき，22世三十郎清孝(1837‐88)は前将軍に従って静岡に引きこもったので，東京の観世流は，初世梅若実と分家5世観世銕之丞(紅雪)とによって守られ，衰滅を免れて復興にむかったが，これが遠因となっていわゆる梅若問題(免状発行をめぐる紛争)が生じた。梅若は丹波猿楽の旧家だが(旧姓梅津)，15世紀後半，景久の代に京都に進出，その芸が後土御門天皇の意にかなって梅若大夫の称をもらったという。…

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