Housekeeping - Oie Sewa

...Examples of the former include "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki," "The Love Suicides of Heavenly Amijima," "The Homeless Group's Seven-Hour Umbrella," "The Lovestruck Five Great Powers," "The Naniwa Kagami of the Summer Festival," and "The Diary of the Twin Butterflies' Kuruwa," while examples of the latter include "The Ghost Stories of Yotsuya on the Tōkaidō Road," "The Lively Hachiman Festival with a Small Moonlit Moon," "Mouse Komon Haru no Shingata: A New Style for East Prince," "The Three Kichisa's First Purchase in the Red Light District," and "The Autumn Leaves of Ivy at Utsuya Pass." However, many of the sewamono plays written by Edo period authors, such as Tsuruya Nanboku and Kawatake Mokuami, have an overall concept that is intertwined with the world of jidaimono or o-iemono, and the acting and direction are naturally more stylized than general sewamono, so strictly speaking, many of them should be called "jidaimono" or "o-iemono." Kabuki playwriting has a long history and has changed in line with social conditions, making it difficult to classify them according to strict conceptual definitions.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "house care" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…《曾根崎心中》《心中天の網島》《宿無団七時雨傘（やどなしだんしちしぐれのからかさ）》《五大力恋緘》《夏祭浪花鑑》《双蝶々曲輪日記（ふたつちようちようくるわにつき）》などは前者の例，《東海道四谷怪談》《八幡祭小望月賑（はちまんまつりよみやのにぎわい）》《鼠小紋東君新形（ねずみこもんはるのしんがた）》《三人吉三廓初買》《蔦紅葉宇都谷峠》などが後者の例である。もっとも，鶴屋南北や河竹黙阿弥など，江戸作者の手になる世話物は，全体の構想が時代物ないしお家物の世界にからませてある場合が多く，演技や演出もおのずから一般の世話物より様式化されたものになるので，それらを厳密にいうときは，〈時代世話〉または〈お家世話〉と呼ばねばならないものが多い。歌舞伎の作劇には長い歴史があるために社会情勢に従っての変遷があり，厳格な概念規定による分類は行いがたいことも生ずる。…

※「お家世話」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。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報