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Joruri Gidayu-bushi. Historical piece. 13 acts. Collaborative work by Yoshida Kanshi and Miyoshi Shoraku. First performed at the Takemotoza Theater in Osaka in February 1751 (Kan'en 4). This is an expanded and revised version of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's "Tanba Yosaku Matsuyo no Komuro-bushi," which depicts the love between the famous horseman Tanba Yosaku and the innkeeper Seki no Koman, a famous folk song. The main story is about Date Yosaku, a retainer of the Yurugi family, who is banished for the theft of the money used to buy the freedom of Iroha, a geisha and lover of a young lord, and for his affair with his maid Shigenoi, and becomes a wandering horseman. The play also includes a story about Shigenoi's father, the Noh actor Takemura Sadanoshin, who teaches his lord the Noh play "Dojoji" and then commits seppuku inside a bell to atone for his daughter's sins; the tragedy of Yosaku's brother-in-law, the zato Keimasa; and the horseman Yosaku falling in love with Iroha, who has become Koman of Seki. However, the most famous part is the tenth act, "Shigenoi Kowakeru," which is often performed in both Bunraku puppet theater and Kabuki.

Saved by her father's death, Shigenoi becomes the wet nurse of Shirabehime, the daughter of her master. On the day that the princess leaves to travel east as an adopted daughter of the Iruma family, she learns that the young horseman Sankichi, who appeased the princess by playing sugoroku on the journey, is her son with Yosaku. However, out of obligation to her master, she holds back her tears and leaves without revealing the names of father and son. In Kabuki, Shigenoi is a representative role for a female actor, and is known for her performance of inner sorrow. Sankichi also plays one of the leading roles as a child actor.

[Toshiaki Matsui]

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浄瑠璃義太夫節(じょうるりぎだゆうぶし)。時代物。13段。吉田冠子(かんし)・三好松洛(みよししょうらく)合作。1751年（寛延4）2月大坂・竹本座初演。俗謡で有名な馬士(まご)丹波与作(たんばよさく)と宿場女関の小万(せきのこまん)の恋を描いた近松門左衛門の『丹波与作待夜小室節(まつよのこむろぶし)』の増補改作。由留木(ゆるぎ)家の臣伊達(だて)与作が若殿の情人芸子いろはの身請けの金を盗まれた咎(とが)と腰元重の井(しげのい)との不義によって追放され、馬方となって流浪する話を本筋として、重の井の父である能役者竹村定之進が主君に『道成寺(どうじょうじ)』の能を伝授したあと鐘の中で切腹して娘の罪を償う話、与作の義兄座頭慶政(けいまさ)の悲劇、馬方与作が関の小万となったいろはと恋に落ちる話などが組み込まれているが、名高いのは十段目の「重の井子別れ」で、人形浄瑠璃でも歌舞伎(かぶき)でも多く上演される。

　父の忠死によって救われ、主家の息女調姫(しらべひめ)の乳母となった重の井は、姫が入間(いるま)家の養女となって東国へ下る旅立ちの日、道中双六(すごろく)で姫の機嫌をとった幼い馬方三吉を、与作との間に生んだわが子と知るが、主家への義理のため、涙をこらえ親子の名のりをせずに別れる。歌舞伎で重の井は立女方(たておやま)の代表的な役で、内面的な愁嘆の演技が眼目。三吉も子役として有数の大役である。

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