Izumi-ryu

A school of kyogen. The head family, the Yamawaki Izumi family, traces its origins to Sasaki Gakurakuken, who lived in Sakamoto, Omi Province (Shiga Prefecture) in the mid-Muromachi period, but later became a kyogen performer at Torikai Sarugaku, which was located on the banks of the Yodo River in Settsu Province (Osaka Prefecture). After the troupe's decline, the 7th head of the family, Yamawaki Izuminokami Motoyoshi, who had been active in Kyoto in the early Edo period, established his own style by taking over the Miyake Tokuro and Nomura Matasaburo families, who were also influential kyogen performers in Kyoto. The Yamawaki Izumi and Nomura families received stipends from the Owari Tokugawa clan, and the Miyake family from the Kaga Maeda clan, and both served the Imperial Court, but throughout the Edo period the style was limited to Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Kanazawa, and Kumamoto, where there were disciples of the Nomura family. After the Meiji Restoration, when the capital was moved to Tokyo, many famous families from various regions, including the Miyake Tokuro family and the Yamawaki Izumi family, gathered in Tokyo due to their connection as schools that served the Imperial Court, but many of them lost their successors. The Izumi school in Tokyo is dominated by the eldest son of the 5th Nomura Manzo (retired name Mansai), a disciple of the Miyake family who came up from Kanazawa, the 6th Nomura Manzo, and his second son, the 9th Miyake Tokuro, who took over as his master, and successors from each line are active. In other areas, there is the Kyogen Kyodosha in Nagoya, which preserves the traditions of the Izumi school, and the Hokuriku Kyogen Association in Kanazawa.

[Mr. Kobayashi February 18, 2019]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

狂言の流儀。宗家山脇(やまわき)和泉家は、室町中期に近江(おうみ)国（滋賀県）坂本に住んでいた佐々木岳楽軒(がくらくけん)を流祖とするが、のち摂津国（大阪府）の淀(よど)川河畔にあった鳥飼猿楽(とりかいさるがく)の狂言方になったらしい。同座衰微後、江戸初期に京都へ出て活躍していた宗家7世山脇和泉守(いずみのかみ)元宜(もとよし)が、同じく京都の有力な狂言方であった三宅藤九郎(みやけとうくろう)家と野村又三郎家を傘下に収めて流儀を確立、山脇和泉家と野村家は尾張(おわり)徳川藩の、三宅家は加賀前田藩の禄(ろく)を受けながら禁裏御用も勤めたが、江戸時代を通じ流勢は京坂、名古屋、金沢、および野村家の弟子家があった熊本に限られていた。明治維新後、東京遷都に伴い、禁裏御用の流儀であった縁により三宅藤九郎家をはじめとし、山脇和泉家ほか各地の名家も東京に集まったが、多くは後継が絶えた。東京の和泉流は、金沢から上った三宅家の弟子筋である5世野村万造（隠居名、萬斎(まんさい)）の長男6世野村万蔵(まんぞう)と次男で師家を継いだ9世三宅藤九郎の門葉が独占し、それぞれの流れをくむ後継者が活躍している。ほかの地では名古屋に同地和泉流の伝統を守る狂言共同社、金沢に北陸狂言会がある。

［小林　責　2019年2月18日］

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