Hakone Miraculous Revenge - Hakone Miraculous Revenge

Joruri Gidayu-bushi. Historical piece. 12 acts. Written by Shiba Shiso. First performed in August 1801 (Kyowa 1). The following September, it was adapted into a kabuki play in Kyoto, and in November it was performed again at a theater in the east of Dotonbori in Osaka. It is a dramatization of the incident in 1590 (Tensho 18) when Iinuma Katsugoro killed his brother's enemy, Kato Kosuke. The 11th act, from "Amidaji" to "Waterfall," is famous. It is commonly known as "Tsurugi no Vengeance" or "Tsurugi Katsugoro." Iinuma Katsugoro is traveling with his wife Hatsuhana in pursuit of Sato Gosuke, who killed his brother Sanpei. His illness makes him lame, and when he reaches Hakone Amidaji Temple, Gosuke, who has changed his name to Takiguchi Kosuke, is lying in wait for him. He captures Katsugoro's mother, shackles her, and takes Hatsuhana away. Hatsuhana tries to kill Ueno but is killed in return, but her ghost returns to her husband, and Katsugoro's leg is healed by praying after being hit by the waterfall at Tonosawa, and he later successfully kills his enemy. This story has also been performed as a Kabuki play, and the famous line of Hatsuhana, who is pulling Katsugoro in a cart along the Hakone roads in autumn, is, "These are mountain areas, so snow falls even though there are maples."

[Toshiaki Matsui]

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浄瑠璃義太夫節(じょうるりぎだゆうぶし)。時代物。12段。司馬芝叟(しそう)作。1801年（享和1）8月初演という。翌9月京都で歌舞伎(かぶき)に移され、11月大坂道頓堀(どうとんぼり)東の芝居で再演。1590年（天正18）飯沼勝五郎(いいぬまかつごろう)が兄の仇加藤幸助を討った事件を脚色した作で、11段「阿弥陀寺(あみだじ)」から「滝」までが名高い。通称「躄の仇討」「躄勝五郎」。飯沼勝五郎は兄三平を殺した佐藤剛助を追って妻初花(はつはな)と流浪中、病のため足が不自由になり、箱根阿弥陀寺までくると、滝口上野(たきぐちこうずけ)と改名した剛助が待ち伏せしていて勝五郎の母を捕らえ、これを枷(かせ)にして初花を連れ去る。初花は上野を討とうとして返り討ちにあうが、その亡霊は夫のもとへ帰り、塔ノ沢の滝に打たれての祈念によって勝五郎の足は治り、のち首尾よく敵(かたき)を討つ。歌舞伎でも上演され、秋の箱根路を躄車(いざりぐるま)に勝五郎を乗せて引く初花の「ここらあたりは山家(やまが)ゆえ、紅葉(もみじ)のあるに雪が降る」の台詞(せりふ)が有名。

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