Kankiyakata

…Kokusei-ya is correctly written as Kokusei-ya, but it is thought that Chikamatsu consciously rewrote the characters. Watonai's performance in the scene called "Senri-ga-take" where he slays a fierce tiger, and the scene called "Kurenai-nagashi" where Nishiki-shojo signals Watonai outside the Kanki-kan by flowing red, and when Watonai realizes that the fight has been defeated, she bursts in with such intensity that they were adopted by Kabuki, and the unique Tobi-rokuho style was devised, and together with the costumes and kumadori, they became representative of aragoto plays. The line "Namu amida butterfly has flowed" and the large pose are famous. …

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

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…国性爺は正しくは国姓爺と書くが，近松が意識的に文字を書き直したと考えられている。〈千里ヶ竹〉と呼ばれる猛虎退治の場の和藤内の活躍ぶりや，〈紅流し〉と呼ばれる場面で，甘輝館の外で待つ和藤内に錦祥女が紅を流して合図をし，和藤内が事破れたと知って乱入する激しさが，歌舞伎に採り入れられ独特の飛び六方が工夫されるなど，衣装や隈取を合わせて荒事の代表的演目ともなった。〈南無三，紅が流れたァ〉のせりふと大見得が有名である。…

※「甘輝館」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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