Vengeful spirits - Onryomono

Japanese: 怨霊物 - おんりょうもの
Vengeful spirits - Onryomono

In this sense, the demons that Zeami also pointed out as part of the tradition of Yamato Sarugaku are manifestations of a strange power that transcends human beings, and this is related to the viewpoint of regarding the sacred as a manifestation of a strange power (cratophany), which is not limited to Japanese performing arts, and such a power that threatens the community from the outside had to be limited by humans imitating and acting it out. When this is linked to the Goryo, it approaches the original form of Greek tragedy, and the aragoto of Edo Kabuki is the incarnation of Soga Goro as the Goryo, and furthermore, the Onriyomono (vengeful spirits) form a genealogy that ranges from Noh to Kabuki to the underground theater of the late 1960s. In this way, dramatic power is omnipresent in Japanese theater, but like Western dramaturgy that originated in ancient Greece, the perspectives and means by which it is segmented and constructed are different, whether it is a conflict or struggle between humans and a destiny that transcends humans, or between individuals.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "vengeful spirits" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その意味では,世阿弥も大和猿楽の伝統として指摘する〈鬼〉は,人間を超えた異形な力の発現であり,これは日本の芸能には限らないが〈聖なるもの〉を〈異形な力の発現(クラトファニー)〉としてとらえる観点に通じるものであり,共同体を外部から脅かすそのような力は,人間がその擬態・演戯をすることでその領分を限る必要があった。それが御霊神と結びつけば,まさにギリシア悲劇の始原的形態に近づくわけだし,江戸歌舞伎の荒事(あらごと)は〈御霊神〉としての曾我五郎の化身であり,さらに〈怨霊物(おんりようもの)〉は,能から歌舞伎を経て1960年代末のアングラ演劇まで,一つの系譜学を形作るほどである。 こうしてみると,日本演劇にも〈劇(はげ)しい力〉は遍在していて,ただそれが,古代ギリシアに発する西洋劇作術のごとく,人間と人間を超える運命の対立・葛藤であれ,個人と個人のそれであれ,分節・構築される視座と手段が異なった。…

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