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A Kabuki play. A domestic drama. Five acts. Written by Tsuruya Namboku IV and Sakurada Jisuke II. Commonly known as "The Daughter of the Honcho Thread Shop." It was first performed in January 1810 (Bunka 7) at the Ichimuraza Theater in Edo by Onoe Kikugorou III, Iwai Hanshiro V, and Matsumoto Koshiro V. The story of the thread shop's daughter, which has long been sung in folk songs, is adapted to incorporate a love story between Koito and Sasichi. The play depicts parallel stories of the turmoil caused by Ofusa, the beautiful daughter of a thread shop owner, her lover Honjo Tsunagoro, and the villainous Hanki Kurobee and his wife Oji, as well as the relationship between a construction worker called Omatsuri Sanshichi and a geisha Koito whose relationship is torn apart by the woman's affectations, leading to Sanshichi's murder of Koito. Features typical of Nanboku include the scene where Ofusa, who has been rendered lifeless by poisoned alcohol, comes back to life in a coffin in the cemetery, and the technique of quickly changing Ofusa and Oji into Hanshiro at the samurai house where Kurobee blackmails Tsunagoro. The play was discontinued, but was revived in the Showa era by Sawamura Tosshi VIII, Kawarazaki Chojuro and Kunitaro of Zenshinza, each with a different revised script. The story of Sazane has become popular through its retelling by the third Kawatake Shinshichi, in the form of Edo Sodachi Gosai Sazane.

[Toshiaki Matsui]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

歌舞伎(かぶき)脚本。世話物。5幕。4世鶴屋南北(つるやなんぼく)、2世桜田治助(じすけ)作。通称「本町(ほんちょう)糸屋の娘」。1810年（文化7）1月、江戸・市村座で3世尾上(おのえ)菊五郎、5世岩井半四郎、5世松本幸四郎らにより初演。古くから俗謡に歌われてきた糸屋の娘の話に、小糸、左七（佐七）の情話を絡ませて脚色。糸屋の美しい娘おふさをめぐって、恋人の本庄綱五郎(ほんじょうつなごろう)、悪党の半時九郎兵衛(はんときくろべえ)・お時の夫婦らが引き起こす騒動に、お祭左七とよばれる鳶(とび)の者と芸者小糸の仲が女の愛想づかしによって破れ、左七の小糸殺しに至る話を、並列して描く。毒酒によって仮死したおふさが墓場の棺の中で生き返る場面や、九郎兵衛が綱五郎をゆする浪宅で、おふさとお時を半四郎に早替りさせる技巧などが南北らしい特色。中絶していたのを、昭和になって8世沢村訥子(とっし)、前進座の河原崎長十郎・国太郎らがそれぞれ別の改訂台本で復活した。左七の話は、3世河竹新七が書き替えた『江戸育(えどそだち)御祭佐七』によって親しまれている。

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