Tamakazura - Tamakazura

Noh piece. Fourth piece. Five-school current piece. Kanze school is written as "Tamazura". Written by Konparu Zenchiku. Source is "Tamazura" chapter of "The Tale of Genji". A woman rowing a boat (mae shite) guides a monk (waki) who visits Hase Kannon to two cedar trees. Tamazura, who has been toyed with by a strange fate, tells him how he met a maid of his late mother, Yugao, here, and vanishes, hinting that she is her ghost. At the monk's funeral, Tamazura's spirit (noto shite) appears, complains about his suffering from delusions, and repents of his past, but eventually attains nirvana and vanishes. Treated as a madwoman piece, the theme is unclear. This is a Noh play that emotionally depicts a young woman's melancholy and fear of the opposite sex.

[Masuda Shozo]

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能の曲目。四番目物。五流現行曲。観世(かんぜ)流は「玉鬘」と表記。金春禅竹(こんぱるぜんちく)作。典拠は『源氏物語』の「玉葛」の巻。長谷(はせ)観音に参詣(さんけい)した僧（ワキ）を、舟を漕(こ)ぐ女（前シテ）が二本(ふたもと)杉に案内し、数奇な運命にもてあそばれた玉葛が、亡き母夕顔の侍女とここで巡り会ったことを語り、その亡霊であることをほのめかして消える。僧の弔いに、玉葛の霊（後シテ）が現れ、妄執に悩むさまを訴え、昔を懺悔(ざんげ)するが、やがて成仏して消える。狂女物として扱われるが、主題が明確でない。若い女性の物思わしさとか、異性への恐怖を、情緒的に造形した能である。

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