"Kinpira Homon Arasoi"

...The cast includes Ichikawa Danjūrō ​​IX as Hatazui Chobei, Ichikawa Gonjūrō ​​as Sakuragawa Goroza and Mizuno Jyūrōzaemon, Iwai Shiwaku as Chobei's wife Oji, and others. In the original production, the conflict between town slaves and samurai slaves was entangled with the grudge of a favorite sumo wrestler's match, but in 1591, Kawatake Shinshichi III added a "Murayamaza Fight Scene" including a play-within-a-play "Kinpira Homon Arasoi" to the prologue, and this has since become the standard format, with the story about the sumo wrestler Sakuragawa being omitted. Kurowashikanadayū, a sumo wrestler favored by the Shiragari-gumi, led by Mizuno Jyūrōzaemon, resents his loss in the ring to Sakuragawa Goroza, the favorite sumo wrestler of the town slave Hatazui Chobei, and tries to kill him on the Imagawa Bridge, only to be killed in return. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Kinpeiho Monzō" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…配役は幡随長兵衛を9世市川団十郎，桜川五郎蔵･水野十郎左衛門を市川権十郎，長兵衛女房お時を岩井紫若ほか。初演では町奴と旗本奴の対立にひいき力士の勝負の遺恨を絡めたのを，91年，3世河竹新七が序幕に劇中劇《金平法問諍（きんぴらほうもんあらそい）》を含めた〈村山座けんかの場〉をつけて上演したので，以後これが定型となり，力士桜川のくだりは省略されている。水野十郎左衛門が頭目の白柄組がひいきする力士黒鷲官太夫は，町奴幡随長兵衛のひいき力士桜川五郎蔵に土俵で負けたのを恨み，今川橋で殺そうとして返り討ちに合う。…

※「《金平法問諍》」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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