Fishing hook - Fishing line

The title of a Kyogen piece. Tarokaja Kyogen. In the Okura school, it is called Mukoonna Kyogen. A man from around here takes Tarokaja (shite) to Ebisu in Nishinomiya to ask for a wife (praying to the gods and Buddhas to get a wife), and receives a message in a dream that he is given a fishing rod to catch his wife. He happily takes it home and lets the knight fish. The knight goes to the bridge while singing and dancing, "Go fish, go fish..." and throws the fishing hook into the curtain, and his wife wearing a robe comes out. He then fishes the ladies-in-waiting, and then he fishes out his own wife. After the masters of the house go inside to have their wedding ceremony, the knight takes off the robe of the woman who will become his wife, but she is so ugly (wearing a Otsu mask) that he pushes down the woman who is admiring him and runs away. The above is the story of the Izumi school, but in the Okura school, the man is given a fishing hook with which he can catch any fish, and after reeling in a sword or other fish, he catches the master's wife and several ladies-in-waiting and maids.After the master and his wife enter, he tries to pick out any woman he likes, but they are all ugly.

This piece was adapted into a kabuki dance piece, "Ebisu-mo-de-koi-no-tsuribari" (commonly known as "Tsurionna"), by Tokiwazu. The piece was originally written in 1883 (Meiji 16) by Kawatake Mokuami as lyrics and composed by Kishizawa Shikisa VI, and premiered by Ichikawa Ennosuke I at the Tokyo-za Theatre in 1901 (Meiji 34).

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Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

狂言の曲名。太郎冠者(かじゃ)狂言。大蔵流では聟女(むこおんな)狂言とする。このあたりの者が、太郎冠者（シテ）を連れて、西の宮の夷(えびす)へ申し妻（妻を得るため神仏に祈ること）に出かけ、夢のお告げによって妻を釣る釣竿(つりざお)を賜る。喜んで持ち帰り、冠者に釣らせる。冠者は「釣ろよ釣ろよ……」と謡い舞いながら橋掛りへ行き釣針を揚幕へ投げると、被衣(かずき)をかぶった奥様がかかって出てくる。ついで腰元たちを釣り、さらに自分の妻も釣り上げる。主人たちが祝言のため奥へ入ったあと、冠者が自分の妻となる女の被衣をとると、あまりの醜女(しこめ)（乙の面を着用）なので、慕い寄る女を突き倒して逃げ込む。以上は和泉(いずみ)流の内容で、大蔵流では、なんでも釣れる釣針を授かり、太刀(たち)などを釣ってから、主人の奥様と腰元・下女数人を釣り、主人夫婦が入ったあと、好きな女をよりどりにしようとするが、みな醜女だったという筋。

　本曲を歌舞伎(かぶき)舞踊化したのが常磐津(ときわず)による『戎詣恋釣針(えびすもうでこいのつりばり)』（通称「釣女(つりおんな)」）。1883年（明治16）河竹黙阿弥(もくあみ)作詞・6世岸沢式佐作曲により素(す)の演奏曲としてできていたものを、1901年（明治34）東京座で初世市川猿之助が初演した。

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