Shadow play

...The contents include a variety of things, such as name-writing, tsunari, and rokuho-kotoba, monozukushi, monburi, tori-ga, puns, dialogue, tales of revenge, lines of opinion, lines of "Shibaraku", and lines of the men in "Sukeroku". After that, the publication of "serifuzushi" gradually became more popular, and as a voice-over book, "Oumuseki" was published in the early An'ei period (1772-81), and "Kageshibai" and other works were published in the Meiji period. In addition, the texts published by the Rare Books Reproduction Society include "Rokuho Kotoha" (1673) and "Serifu Daizen" (around 1709). ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "kage shabi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その内容は，名のり，つらね，六方詞をはじめ，もの尽し，物売，早口，地口，掛合，敵討物語，意見のせりふ，《暫》のせりふ，《助六》の男達（おとこだて）のせりふなど種々のものがある。以後，〈せりふ尽し〉の刊行はしだいに盛んとなり，声色（こわいろ）本として，安永(1772‐81)初年には〈鸚鵡石（おうむせき）〉が，明治になってからは〈影芝居〉などの刊行をみるに至った。なお，テキストには，稀書複製会本に，《六方こと葉》(1673)，《せりふ大全》(1709ごろ)などがある。…

※「影芝居」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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