More Than Revenge

...This is the author's representative work, which is based on the historical fact of the excavation of the Aonodomon Cave in Yamakei, Buzen Province, by the Zen monk Shinnyoan Zenkai in the mid-Edo period, and links the desire for revenge to human love. The play, adapted by the author himself, is entitled "More Than Revenge," and since its premiere in 1920 at the Imperial Theater by Morita Kan'ya XIII, it has often been performed by Ichikawa Ennosuke II, Sawada Shojiro, and others. It has also been featured in rakugo and naniwabushi, and the oral performance by Sakai Un, who has written many literary rakugo plays, has been particularly well received. ...

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…江戸中期の禅僧真如庵禅海による豊前国耶馬渓の青ノ洞門開削の史実に取材し仇討の念をも人間愛に結びつけた作者の代表作。作者自身の脚色による劇化は《敵討以上》と題し，1920年帝国劇場で13世守田勘弥によって初演以来，2世市川猿之助，沢田正二郎らがしばしば上演している。講談や浪花節にも取りあげられ，とくにかずかずの文芸浪曲を手がけた酒井雲による口演が好評を博した。…

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