"Rakubanashi Laughing Furin" - Otobanawarai Laughing Hayashi

…[Shimomura Nobuhiro] When Dokan went falconry and got caught in the rain and tried to borrow a raincoat, a young woman offered him a mountain bush clover. He realized that this was the meaning of an old poem (Miscellaneous in Goshuishu), "Seven-layered, eight-layered flowers bloom, but there is not even one mountain bush clover, how sad," and felt ashamed of his ignorance. This anecdote is well-known and is recorded in works such as "Jozan Kidan" (written by Yuasa Jozan, written around Genbun-Meiwa) and "Amechu Mondo" (written by Nishimura Toori, 1778). The original form of the rakugo story "Dokan" that is passed down today was created in "Otosibanashi Warau Hayashi" (written by Hayashiya Shozo I), published in 1833 (Tenpo 4), by parodying this story. The kabuki play Utano Tokumegumi no Yamabuki (written by Kawatake Mokuami) premiered at the Shintomiza Theater in Tokyo in March 1887, dramatizing this oral tradition, with the lowly woman Omura playing Nadeshiko, the daughter of the Toshima family, who was destroyed by Dokan, and who attacks both her father's enemy and Dokan.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Rakubanashi Shofurin" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…【下村 信博】　道灌が鷹狩りに出て雨に遭い，蓑を借りようとしたとき，若い女にヤマブキをさし出され，それが〈七重八重花は咲けども山吹のみの一つだになきぞ悲しき〉という古歌(《後拾遺集》雑)の意だと知り，無学を恥じたという逸話は《常山紀談》(湯浅常山著，元文～明和ころ成立)や《雨中問答》(西村遠里著，1778)等に記されて著名。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。…

※「《落噺笑富林》」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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