Kirokuda

The title of a Kyogen piece. Tarokaja Kyogen. The master who lives in Oku-Tamba orders Tarokaja (shite) to bring six wooden sticks and six charcoal sticks attached to cows as a year-end gift to his uncle in the capital. The kaja, who is also given a sake barrel, drives 12 cows and climbs a hill in heavy snow. He finally arrives at a teahouse at the pass of Oinosaka, but has no sake, so he opens a souvenir sake barrel and starts a drinking party with the teahouse owner. After dancing the "Uzura Mai", he gives the wooden sticks to the teahouse and asks for the remaining five sticks to be exchanged for money for his own pocket money, and delivers only the six charcoal sticks to the capital. When the uncle becomes suspicious after seeing the letter from his master, the kanja tries to deceive him by saying that he recently changed his name to Kirokuda, "I said that I was born Kirokuda and that I was born Sumi-rokuda," but his lie is eventually discovered and he is cornered. The above is the storyline of the Izumi school, while the Okura school does not specify place names such as Oinosaka, and the storyline of the Yamamoto Tojiro family is particularly different, but in both cases the highlight is the performance of the kanja driving up a snowy mountain pass while chasing many cows that do not actually appear.

[Kobayashi, Responsible]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

狂言の曲名。太郎冠者(かじゃ)狂言。奥丹波(たんば)に住む主人は、都の伯父へ歳暮として牛につけた木六駄と炭六駄を持って上るよう、太郎冠者（シテ）に命じる。酒樽(さかだる)まで持たされた冠者は12頭の牛を追い、激しく雪の降る坂道を登って行く。やっと老の坂(おいのさか)の峠の茶屋に着くが、酒がないので土産(みやげ)の酒樽を開いて茶屋と酒宴を始め、「鶉舞(うずらまい)」を舞ったあと、酔うままに、木一駄は茶屋にやり、あと五駄は自分の小遣いにするため換金を頼み、炭六駄だけを都へ届ける。主人からの書状を見て不審がる伯父に、冠者は最近木六駄と改名したので、「木六駄に、炭六駄のぼせ申し候じゃ」とごまかそうとするが、結局嘘(うそ)がわかって追い込まれる。以上は和泉(いずみ)流の筋で、大蔵流では老の坂など地名を特定せず、ことに山本東次郎家の筋立ては非常に違っているが、いずれも、実際には登場しない多くの牛を追って雪の峠道を登って行く冠者の演技が見どころ。

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