The Record of Plays - Kezairoku

Japanese: 戯財録 - けざいろく
The Record of Plays - Kezairoku

A document on Kabuki. Written by Nyugatei Ganyu. Published in the autumn of 1801 (Kyowa 1). The inscription reads "Author's Method." It is the only theoretical book by an Osaka Kabuki author. It has been handed down as a manuscript. According to Kyokutei Bakin's "Sakusakudou Ichiyubanashi," the author was Shoza Namiki II. Other theories suggest that it was Gohei Namiki I or Osuke Namiki. In any case, the author, an elder of the Osaka theater world, lamented the current state of disarray in the methods used by Kabuki authors, and wrote about the author's methods of the past in 23 entries (26 entries in the table of contents). While specifically describing the differences in tastes in kyogen among audiences in the three major cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka, the knowledge and skills needed to write scripts for each season, and the differences in how each act within a single kyogen play is written, the book also mixes in popular moral lessons in the style of a Taoist scholar, attempting to theoretically systematize the work of kabuki composers.

[Hideo Furuido]

"Edited by Masakatsu Gunji et al., 'Modern Art Theory' (Japanese Thought Series 61, 1972, Iwanami Shoten)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

歌舞伎(かぶき)の文献。入我亭我入(にゅうがていがにゅう)著。1801年(享和1)秋成立。角書(つのがき)に「作者式法」とある。大坂の歌舞伎作者の理論書としては唯一のものである。写本として伝わる。著者は曲亭(きょくてい)馬琴の『著作堂一夕話(いちゆうばなし)』によれば2世並木正三(しょうざ)。ほかに初世並木五瓶(ごへい)、並木翁輔(おうすけ)とする説もある。いずれにせよ、大坂劇壇の古老である著者が、歌舞伎作者の式法が乱れた現状を憂い、往時の作者式法を23項目(目次では26項目)にわたって記したものである。京、江戸、大坂の三都の観客の狂言の好みの違いや、春夏秋冬の台本の書き方の心得、または、一つの狂言のなかにおける各幕の書き方の違いなどを具体的に述べる一方、道学者風の通俗的な教訓などをまじえて、歌舞伎作者の仕事を理論的に体系化しようとしたものである。

[古井戸秀夫]

『郡司正勝他編『近世芸道論』(『日本思想大系61』1972・岩波書店)』

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