Shibahama

Rakugo. The original form was created by San'yutei Encho at the end of the Edo period as a three-topic story about a drunkard, Shibahama, and a wallet. It has other titles such as "The Leather Wallet at Shibahama," "The Leather Wallet," "The Money Picker," and "The Horse's Purse." It was created by San'yutei Ensho 3rd and 4th, Tachibanaya Enkyo 4th, Danshurou Enshi 1st and 2nd, and San'yutei Enyu 1st, and has gradually been improved and refined to the present day. Katsugoro, a hard-working but heavy drinker and poor fishmonger, finds a wallet with a large amount of money in it on Shibahama Beach early in the morning. Katsugoro is so happy that he gathers his friends together and falls asleep after a drinking party. The next morning, his wife tells him that she has no wallet and that it was just a dream. A reformed Uokatsu abstains from alcohol and devotes himself to business. He eventually owns a shop and employs two or three young men. On New Year's Eve in the third year, his wife apologizes for deceiving him by saying it was just a dream, and once again takes out the wallet that had been given to him by the authorities. Moved, Katsugoro brings the sake his wife offers him to his mouth, but then says, "No, I don't want to become a dream again." This is a masterpiece of human interest stories with polished descriptions of both scenery and characters, and in recent years has been a specialty of the third generation Katsura Mikisuke.

[Kazuo Sekiyama]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

落語。幕末のころ三遊亭円朝(えんちょう)が、酔払(よっぱら)い・芝浜・財布の三題噺(さんだいばなし)としてつくったのが原形。別に『芝浜の革(かわ)財布』『革財布』『金拾い』『馬入(ばにゅう)』などの題名がある。3代・4代三遊亭円生(えんしょう)、4代橘家円喬(たちばなやえんきょう)、初代・2代談洲楼燕枝(だんしゅうろうえんし)、初代三遊亭円右(えんう)などが手がけ、しだいに改良・洗練されて現代に及んでいる。働き者だが大酒飲みのため貧乏な魚屋の勝五郎は、早朝の芝の浜で大金の入った財布を拾う。喜んだ勝五郎は、友だちを集めて大酒盛りのあげく寝てしまう。翌朝、女房に財布などない、それは夢だといわれ、改心した魚勝は禁酒して商売に専念、やがて店をもち、若い衆も2、3人置くようになる。3年目の大晦日(おおみそか)、女房は夢といってだましたことをわび、改めてお上から下げ渡された財布を出す。感激した勝五郎は、女房の勧める酒を口までもってゆくが「よそう、また夢になるといけねえ」。情景描写、人物描写ともに磨き上げられた人情噺の名作で、近年では3代桂三木助(かつらみきすけ)の十八番であった。

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