Jugemu

Japanese: 寿限無 - じゅげむ
Jugemu

Rakugo. A representative work of opening storytelling. When a boy is born, the priest of the temple he is asked to name him. The priest comes up with the name "Jugemu" after "Muryoju" from the "Amitabha Sutra," and gives him the long name "Jugemu Jugemu, the weariness of five kalpas, the end of the water life of the sea gravel and water fish, the end of the cloud life, the end of the wind, the place where you eat and sleep and live, Yabura Alley, Bura Alley, Paipo Paipo, Paipo's Shuringan, Shuringan Gurindai, Gurindai's Pompokopi, Pompokona's Chokyuumei, Chokyuumei's Chosuke." The main feature is that the name is repeated over and over again, and a neighborhood child who got a bump after fighting with Jugemu comes to tell his mother off, and after a back and forth exchange in which they say all of Jugemu's names, the mother says, "Now, show me your head," and the child says, "My bump has receded because my name is so long." In Kamigata Rakugo, it is also called "Choume no Segare."

[Kazuo Sekiyama]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

落語。前座咄(ばなし)の代表作。男の子が生まれたので檀那寺(だんなでら)の住職に命名を依頼する。住職は『無量寿経』の「無量寿」にちなんで「寿限無」を思い付き、「寿限無寿限無、五劫(ごこう)のすり切れ、海砂利水魚(かいじゃりすいぎょ)の水行末(すいぎょうまつ)、雲行末(うんぎょうまつ)、風来末(ふうらいまつ)、食う寝るところに住むところ、やぶら小路(こうじ)ぶら小路、パイポパイポ、パイポのシューリンガン、シューリンガンのグーリンダイ、グーリンダイのポンポコピーのポンポコナの長久命(ちょうきゅうめい)、長久命の長助」という長い名前をつける。その名前を完全に何度も繰り返すのが眼目で、寿限無と喧嘩(けんか)してこぶをつくられた近所の子供が母親に言い付けにきて、互いに寿限無の名を全部いいながらのやりとりのあげく、「どれ、頭を見せてごらん」「あんまり名前が長いから、こぶが引っ込んじゃった」とサゲる。上方(かみがた)落語では『長命の倅(せがれ)』ともいう。

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