Nayotake

A play by Kato Michio. Five acts and nine scenes. It was published in Mita Bungaku from May to November 1946 (Showa 21). In June 1951, the Onoe Kikugoro Theatre Company performed a part of it as Nayotake Sho. In October 1980, the Bungakuza Theatre Company premiered it under the direction of Akutagawa Hiroshi. In the mid-Heian period, Isonokami Fumimaro sees off his father who is driven out of the capital by the wicked schemes of Dainagon Otomo no Miyuki. He falls in love with Nayotake, the daughter of the Bamboo Cutter. When Fumimaro finds out that the Dainagon is in love with Nayotake, he tries to clear his father's name. On the day of the Aoi Festival, Fumimaro goes crazy and complains to the crowd about the Dainagon's cruelty, but the Dainagon's skillful oratory only earns him the ridicule of the crowd. Eventually, in a fantasy, Fumimaro and Nayotake unite, but Nayotake tells him that a messenger from the moon is coming and dies in Fumimaro's arms. Fumimaro departs for the eastern provinces where his father lives. Said to have been inspired by Giraudoux's "Ondine," this masterpiece of modern verse drama depicts the trajectory of the suffering of youth during wartime in elegant modern language with a Japanese context. The author wrote this play in five months as a will, and entrusted it to a friend before leaving for the front.

[Tsutomu Ohshima]

"Nayotake" (1952, Miraisha, Tespis Series)

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加藤道夫の戯曲。五幕九場。1946年（昭和21）5～11月『三田(みた)文学』に発表。51年6月尾上(おのえ)菊五郎劇団が『なよたけ抄』として部分上演。55年10月文学座が芥川比呂志(あくたがわひろし)演出により初演。平安中期、大納言大伴御行(だいなごんおおとものみゆき)の奸策(かんさく)によって都を追われる父を見送った石上文麻呂(いそのかみふみまろ)は、竹取の翁(おきな)の娘なよたけを見て、心を奪われる。文麻呂は大納言がなよたけに懸想(けそう)しているのを知り、父の汚名を晴らそうとする。葵(あおい)祭の日、文麻呂は狂気のように群衆に大納言の非道を訴えるが、かえって大納言の巧みな弁舌によって群衆の嘲罵(ちょうば)を浴びる。やがて幻想のなかで文麻呂はなよたけと結ばれるが、なよたけは月からの使者がくることを告げ、文麻呂の腕のなかで息絶える。文麻呂は父のいる東国へ旅立つ。ジロドゥーの『オンディーヌ』に想を得たといわれ、戦時下の青春の苦悩の軌跡を、和文脈の格調高い現代語によって描いた現代詩劇の傑作。作者はこの戯曲を遺書として5か月で書き上げ、友人に託して出征した。

［大島　勉］

『『なよたけ』（1952・未来社・てすぴす叢書）』

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