Iron-breaking Kumazo - Iron-breaking Kumazo

… On the other hand, the influence of Kabuki on spectacle art cannot be overlooked. Many Shosagoto and popular Kyogen plays have been "show-made" in the form of monkey plays, horseback circuses, and various other crafts, and there are also examples such as "Kuzunoha Shoji no Kyoku" (an acrobatic version of the kabuki "Kuzunoha" child separation scene) performed by the children's Kyokumochi Tetsuwari Kumazo (Yakichi) troupe at the end of the Edo period, which were passed down to the circus "geso (foot art)" and are still performed today as a specialty of the Kinoshita Circus. Another thing in which the tradition of spectacle art can be clearly seen today is the so-called "iromono" of the vaudeville theater. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Tetsuwari Kumazo" is listed below.

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…　一方，歌舞伎が見世物芸に与えた影響も軽視することはできない。多くの所作事と人気狂言が，猿芝居，曲馬また種々の細工物などのかたちで〈見世物化〉されているし，江戸末期に子供曲持の鉄割熊蔵(弥吉)一座が演じた〈葛の葉障子の曲〉(歌舞伎の《葛の葉》子別れの場の曲芸化)のように，サーカスの〈ゲソ(足芸)〉に受け継がれて，今日でも木下サーカスの十八番として演じられているような例もある。　また今日，見世物芸の伝承を色濃くみてとることができるもう一つのものは，寄席のいわゆる〈色物〉であろう。…

※「鉄割熊蔵」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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