Nasu no Yoichi - Nasu no Yoichi

Japanese: 那須与一 - なすのよいち

The title of a Heike song. A representative piece of narrative Hiroimono (pictures of things found in a bamboo pole). During the Battle of Yashima, the Heike side at sea dared the Genji side to shoot down a fan on the end of a pole, but the chosen young warrior Nasu no Yoichi Munetaka successfully shot it down. The lyrics and the music are both excellent masterpieces. The moment before the arrow is shot is told in a heroic Hiroimono melody of "low tone" and "high tone," and when the fan falls, the high-pitched "Hashiri Mie" is used, making it a highlight of the piece. There is a piece with the same theme on the Satsuma biwa, and there are also other Chikuzen biwa pieces such as "Ogi no Mato" (4-string) composed by Imamura Engai, "Ogi no Mato" (5-string) composed by Iida Koshun, and "Nasu no Yoichi" composed by Tachibana Asahi I.

Nasu no Yoichi

A samurai from the early Kamakura period. A vassal of the Kamakura shogunate in Nasu, Shimotsuke Province. Son of Taro Sukeyasu. His real name was Munetaka. During the Genpei War (the Jisho Civil War), he followed the army of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, and in February 1185, at the Battle of Yashima in Sanuki, he saw the Taira forces sailing in boats on the sea with rising sun fans hoisted on the poles of their boats, and shot them down on Yoshitsune's orders. For this achievement, he was awarded reward land in the provinces of Tanba, Shinano, Wakasa, Bitchu, and Musashi, and became the head of the Nasu clan, but later became a monk and entered the Sokujoin temple in Fushimi, Kyoto.

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Japanese:

平曲の曲名。叙事的な拾物 (ひろいもの) の代表曲。源平屋島の合戦のとき，海上の平家側は竿の先に扇を立てて源氏側に射落せるかと挑発するが，選ばれた若武者那須与一宗高がこれをみごとに射落したという話に基づく。歌詞，曲ともにすぐれた名曲。矢を射る直前を「下音」，「上音」と勇壮な拾物の曲節で語り，扇が舞落ちるところで高音域の「走三重」が用いられ聞きどころとなっている。同主題の曲として，薩摩琵琶に同名の曲があるほか，筑前琵琶にも今村園外作曲『扇の的』 (4弦) ，飯田胡春作曲『扇の的』 (5弦) ，1世橘旭翁作曲『那須与一』などがある。

那須与一
なすのよいち

鎌倉時代初期の武士。下野国那須の鎌倉御家人。太郎資高の子。名，宗高。源平合戦（→治承の内乱）の際，源義経の軍に従い，元暦2（1185）年2月讃岐屋島の戦いで海上に舟を浮かべた平家の軍勢が，小舟の竿に旭日の扇を掲げて漕ぎ出したのを見て，義経の命令でこれを射落とした話は有名。その功により，丹波，信濃，若狭，備中，武蔵各国に恩賞地を与えられ，那須氏の総領となったが，のち出家して，京都伏見即成院に入ったといわれている。

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