Bed - Nedoko

Rakugo. In Kamigata Rakugo, it was called "Neboku Joruri." It is also known as "Shiroto Gidayu." The owner of a house who loves Gidayu wants people to hear his art, so tonight he has his clerk call the people in his tenement house, but they all make excuses and no one comes. The shopkeepers also pretend to be sick and run away, so the owner gets angry and tells the people in the tenement house to leave and that he will dismiss them. Everyone gathers together in surprise, and the owner cheers them up and starts telling a story. It soon becomes quiet, so the owner takes a closer look and sees that everyone is asleep. When the owner gets angry again, only one boy, Sadakichi, is crying and awake. "What was sad about it? Was it the separation of a child, or Sendai-hagi?" "It's not that place." "Where is it?" "Over there." "Isn't that the bed where I recited the Gidayu narration?" "As for me... that's my bed." The original story can be found in Edo short stories such as "Seisuisho" and "Wakanhanashikai." It was the specialty of Katsura Bunraku 8th, but the content is interesting and there are still many performers who perform it today.

[Kazuo Sekiyama]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

落語。上方(かみがた)落語では『寝床浄瑠璃(じょうるり)』といった。『素人義太夫(しろうとぎだゆう)』という別名もある。義太夫好きの家主が自分の芸を人に聞かせたがり、今夜も番頭に長屋の者を呼びに行かせたが、それぞれ断りの言い訳をしてだれもこない。店の者も仮病を使って逃げるので家主は怒り、長屋の者はみんな出て行け、店の者は暇を出すという。一同が驚いて集まり、家主が機嫌を直して語り始める。そのうちに静かになったので、家主がよく見ると、みんな寝ている。また家主が怒ると、たった1人だけ小僧の定吉が寝ずに泣いている。「どこが悲しかった？　子別れか、先代萩(せんだいはぎ)か」「そんなとこじゃない」「どこだい」「あすこだい」「あすこはあたしが義太夫語った床(ゆか)じゃないか」「あたくしは……あすこが寝床でございます」。原話は『醒睡笑(せいすいしょう)』『和漢咄会(わかんはなしかい)』など江戸小咄(こばなし)にみられる。8代目桂文楽(かつらぶんらく)の十八番だったが、内容がおもしろく、いまでも演(や)り手が多い。

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