"The Gion Festival Nobunaga Chronicle"

...The ingenious stage props, such as the three-tiered lifting and lowering of the Kinkakuji Temple in the fourth act (Setsuyo Kikan), and the fact that the head of the doll of Tokichi Konoshita (corresponding to Kinoshita Tokichirō) was made to resemble the wooden statue of Hideyoshi at Kodaiji Temple in Kyoto (Jorurifu), became popular. As Ezukushi states, the title was originally Gion Festival Nobunaga-ki, but was later changed. As Yamato Kaidan Koro Ni Zensho states, "Because they had made Oda, Hashiba, and others, they did not feel shy," it is thought that this was out of fear of Nobunaga, but this is not clear.

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…四段目金閣寺の三重のセリ上げ･セリ下げという大道具の工夫(《摂陽奇観》)や，此下東吉(木下藤吉郎に当たる)の人形の首（かしら）を京都高台寺の秀吉の木像に似せて造ったこと(《浄瑠璃譜》)などが人気を呼んだ。絵尽しにあるように，初め《祇園祭礼信長記》といったが，のちに改めた。《大和怪談頃日全書》に〈織田･羽柴等を造込みし故，遠慮弁へずとの事也〉とあるように，信長をはばかってのこととされるが，明らかでない。…

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