Karukaya

Japanese: 苅萱 - かるかや

The title of a sekkyobushi (a traditional Japanese song of a Buddhist sect). Since the Middle Ages, it has been passed down among the lower-ranking monks of Mount Koya, the Kayado Hijiri (sacred priests), and the original version, Sekkyo Karukaya (1631), was published in the early modern period. Kato Shigeuji, the leader of the Chikuzen Matsuura clan, felt the impermanence of life and became a monk, taking the name Karukaya Doshin. His son, Sekidomaru, climbs Mount Koya to visit his father, and they meet, but Karukaya, keeping his vow to his teacher Honen, refrains from taking the name of father and son. It is a poignant depiction of the affection between father and son between Karukaya and Sekidomaru. A joruri piece based on this piece and others is the 1735 joruri piece Karukayasomon Tsukushi (Karukaya Doshin Tsukushi no Iedzuto).

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Japanese:

説経節の曲名。中世以来高野山の下級僧である萱堂 (かやどう) の聖 (ひじり) の間で語り継がれ，近世初期に『せっきょうかるかや』 (1631) の正本が刊行された。筑前松浦党の総領，加藤繁氏は無常を感じて出家し，苅萱道心と名のる。子の石童丸は父をたずねて高野山へ登り，めぐり会うが，苅萱は師法然との誓いを守り，親子の名のりを思いとどまる。苅萱と石童丸の父子恩愛の情を哀切に描いたもの。本曲などを原拠とする浄瑠璃に享保 20 (1735) 年の浄瑠璃『苅萱桑門筑紫 (かるかやどうしんつくしのいえづと) 』がある。

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