Tenma Hachidayu

Japanese: 天満八太夫 - てんま・はちたゆう

Year of death: 1704
Year of birth: Unknown. A leading sekkyo-bushi tayu in Edo during the early Edo period. Known as Tenma-bushi since before the Manji era (1658-61), he was the first to receive the title of sekkyo-bushi tayu on December 9, 1661 (Kanbun 1), and took the name Iwami no Jo Fujiwara Shigenobu. He has more than 20 original narration works. He retired around 1692 (Genroku 5). His pupils included Musashi Gondayu, Tenma Shigetayū, and Edo Magoshirō. In the Jōkyō and Genroku periods (1684-1704), in addition to the Tenma Hachidayū za, other names such as the Edo Magoshirō za, Azuma Shinshiro za, Tenma Shigetayū za, and Musashi Gondayū za could be seen in Edo sekkyo-bushi theater. After Yatayu's death, Tenman-bushi gradually declined, and in 1760 it was said that "Tenman-bushi is nowhere to be found in the corners of the world" (Fuzoku Dharani).

(Michitaka Takeuchi)

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Japanese:

没年：宝永1頃(1704)
生年：生年不詳
江戸前期,江戸の説経節太夫の第一人者。万治(1658～61)以前から天満節として知られ,寛文1(1661)年12月9日,説経の太夫としてはじめて受領して石見掾藤原重信を名乗る。語り物の正本も20種以上と多い。元禄5(1692)年ごろ引退。門人に武蔵権太夫,天満重太夫,江戸孫四郎らがある。貞享・元禄期(1684～1704)には,江戸の説経芝居として天満八太夫座のほかに,江戸孫四郎座,あづま新四郎座,天満重太夫座,武蔵権太夫座などの名がみられる。八太夫の没後天満節は次第に衰え,宝暦10(1760)年には「いたはしや浮世のすみに天満節」(『風俗陀羅尼』)といわれている。

(竹内道敬)

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