Okazaki Kengyo

...Folk songs about Gengobei and Oman, a man and woman who commit double suicide at Toribeno (Toribeno), became popular in the early modern period, and Joruri and Kabuki-kyogen plays (Oman Gengobei mono) with these two as the main characters were composed, as well as Kabuki and Japanese music that used this situation. (1) Jiuta Lyrics by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, music by Koide Kinshirou, revised by Okazaki Kengyo (1684-1753). It is said that Okazaki Kengyo transcribed the song used in the travel scene of the Kabuki-kyogen play Toribeno Shinju, which was performed at the Miyako Mandayu-za in Kyoto in January 1706 (3rd year of the Hoei period) and at the Iwai-za in Osaka in the summer of the same year, into a jiuta. ...

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…鳥辺山(鳥辺野)で心中する男女，源五兵衛･おまんを扱った俗謡が近世初期に流行したが，この2人を主人公とする浄瑠璃や歌舞伎狂言(おまん源五兵衛物)，あるいはこの状況を用いた歌舞伎や邦楽が作られている。(1)地歌　近松門左衛門作詞，湖出金四郎作曲，岡崎検校(1684‐1753)改調。1706年(宝永3)正月京都の都万太夫座および同年夏大坂の岩井座で上演された歌舞伎狂言《鳥辺山心中》の道行に用いられた曲を岡崎検校が地歌に移したとされる。…

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