Mai no hon - Mai no hon

A book containing the lyrics of Kōwaka dance. Strictly speaking, it refers to the illustrated woodblock books that were circulated as reading material in the early and mid-Edo period, but it generally includes the original copies that were written down as scripts. The number of pieces is listed as 36 in the genealogy of the Kōwaka families, the Kanbun, Jokyo, and Genroku "Shoseki Mokuroku" and "Gunsho Ichiran," but if the original copies are included, there are 50 known pieces. Most of them are based on military tales, such as "Nasu no Yoichi," "Atsumori," and "Kagekiyo," which depict the Genpei War, so-called Yoshitsune stories such as "Yashima" and "Eboshiori," and some based on the "Tales of Soga" such as "Yochisoga" and "Genpuku Soga." There are also some stories. Many of them have the same content as Noh plays, but they are composed as narrative pieces, and influenced the Kojoruri of the early modern period.

[Shigeru Takayama]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

幸若舞(こうわかまい)の詞章を記した本。厳密には江戸初中期に読み物として流布した絵入りの板本(はんぽん)をいうが、一般には台本として書写された正本(しょうほん)も含む。番数は幸若諸家の系図をはじめ、寛文(かんぶん)、貞享(じょうきょう)、元禄(げんろく)の『書籍目録』、あるいは『群書一覧』ともに36番としているが、正本の番数をあわせると50番の曲目が知られている。大部分が軍記物語に材をとり、『那須与一(なすのよいち)』『敦盛(あつもり)』『景清(かげきよ)』など源平(げんぺい)合戦を描いたもの、『八嶋(やしま)』『烏帽子折(えぼしおり)』などいわゆる義経(よしつね)物、『夜討曽我(ようちそが)』『元服(げんぷく)曽我』など『曽我物語』を典拠とするもののほかに説話的なものもある。謡曲と同一内容の曲も多いが、叙述的な語物として構成されており、近世初期の古浄瑠璃(こじょうるり)に影響を与えた。

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