Ghost story play

Japanese: 怪談劇 - かいだんげき
Ghost story play

... While turning the world of Chushingura upside down and deconstructing it, it incorporates the popular tale of the vengeful spirit of Oiwa, the daughter of Tamiya who lived in Yotsuya Samoncho, the story of an adulterous couple nailed to the front and back of a door panel and thrown into the Kanda River, and the story of an eel fisherman digging up the bodies of a couple who committed double suicide after floating in the moat, but it also draws on Nanboku's own earlier works such as Iroeiriotogizoshi, Okuni Gozen Kesho no Sugatami, Nazo no Obichiyotsuto Tokubei, and Kesakakematsu Narita no Riken. It is a masterpiece of ghost story drama, but it is not a ghost story conceived simply in terms of the relationship between perpetrator (evil) and victim (good). Oiwa's face takes on a grotesque appearance and at the same time she transforms from victim to twisted perpetrator, eel fisherman ... …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "ghost story plays" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 《忠臣蔵》の世界を転倒,解体させながら,巷説の,四谷左門町に住んでいた田宮の娘お岩の怨霊話や,密通した男女が戸板の裏表に釘付けされ神田川に流された話や,隠亡堀に心中者の男女の死体が流れたのを鰻搔きが引きあげた話などを取り込んでいるが,南北自身の先行作品《彩入御伽艸(いろえいりおとぎぞうし)》《阿国御前化粧鏡(けしようのすがたみ)》《謎帯一寸(なぞのおびちよつと)徳兵衛》《法懸松(けさかけまつ)成田利剣》などをふまえている。怪談劇の傑作であるが,たんなる加害(悪)・被害(善)の関係で構想された怪談劇ではない。お岩はグロテスクな顔になると同時に被害者から心のねじけた加害者に転化し,観客に恐怖とともに嫌悪感も与える。…

※「怪談劇」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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