Shojo

Japanese: 猩々 - しょうじょう

Title of a Noh piece, Japanese music, or Japanese dance. (1) Noh: A Noh piece with an unknown author. A man living in the village of Yangzi in China is led by a dream to sell sake in the market when a Shojo appears and, in recognition of the man's filial piety, gives him a bottle of sake that never runs dry and dances with him. The highlight of the piece is the dance of the Shojo, a fairy in the form of a cute young boy. (→ Ono Noh) (2) Nagauta: This piece was first performed in 1820 at the Nakamuraza Theater in Edo as one of the seven transformations, under the original title "Shojo Yuki no Eizame." Bando Mitsugoro III danced the role of a drunk Shojo on a snowy beach. In 1874, a new choreography was written for a supporting piece by the same company at the Kawarazaki Theater, and it was performed as the Matsubamokumono "Kotobuki Futari Shojo." This is the extant version of "Futari Shojo." In addition, there is a jiuta song known as "Onna Shojo," which depicts a prostitute stacking cups of sake, and in the Icchu-bushi genre there remains a song of the same name composed by Miyako Kazukiyo in 1855.

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Japanese:

能，邦楽，邦舞の曲名。 (1) 能　切能物で作者未詳。唐土揚子 (ようす) の里に住む男が夢に導かれて市で酒を売っていると猩々が来て，男の孝行の徳により汲めども尽きぬ酒の壺を与えて舞を舞う。この可憐な少年の姿をした妖精，猩々の舞姿が見どころとなっている。 (→尾能 ) (2) 長唄　文政3 (1820) 年，江戸中村座で七変化の一つで本名題『猩々雪酔覚 (ゆきのえいざめ) 』として初演。3世坂東三津五郎が雪の浜辺で酔う猩々を踊った。また 1874年河原崎座で同座の脇狂言であったものを新たに振付し，松羽目物の『寿二人猩々』として上演。これが現存の『二人猩々』である。このほか，地唄には遊女の杯を重ねるさまを描いた通称『女猩々』の曲があり，一中節にも安政2 (55) 年，都一清作曲の同名の曲が残っている。

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