Pine needles - Matsunoha

A song book from the early Edo period. Five volumes. Published in Kyoto in 1703 (Genroku 16). Compiled by Shushoken. The editor's biography is unknown, but the preface states that the book's title is named after the editor. It is the first collection of lyrics for early modern shamisen songs that had been handed down by professional performers (blind performers) in Kamigata, making it a valuable book in the history of song and Japanese music. The first volume is made up of 21 shamisen group songs and "The Secret Songs to be Transmitted," the second volume is made up of 50 long songs, the third volume is made up of 73 short songs, the fourth volume is made up of 21 Azuma Joruri songs such as Handayu-bushi, and the fifth volume is made up of Kokin Hyakushu Nagebushi (a 100-poem collection of poems) and "Uta Onsei Naborae Samisen Hikikata Kokoroe." In the following year, 1804 (the first year of the Hoei era), Oki Sentoku published "Ochibashu," a seven-volume collection that acts as a supplement to this work, and contains illustrated lyrics of mainly theater songs, dance songs, and popular songs.

[Kiyoko Moteki]

"Matsu no Ha (Pine Leaves)" edited by Kenji Asano (included in "Japanese Classical Literature Series 44: Collection of Medieval and Early Modern Songs", 1959, Iwanami Shoten)

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江戸初期に成立した歌謡書。五巻。1703年（元禄16）京都刊。秀松軒(しゅうしょうけん)編。編者の伝記など未詳だが、書名が編者の名にちなんだことが序文に記されている。上方(かみがた)において職業的演奏家（盲人演奏家）によって伝承されてきた近世初期三味線歌曲の歌詞を集成した最初のもので、歌謡史、日本音楽史上貴重な書。第一巻―三味線組歌21曲および「秘曲相伝之次第」、第二巻―長歌(ながうた)50曲、第三巻―端歌(はうた)73曲、第四巻―半太夫節(はんだゆうぶし)などの吾妻浄瑠璃(あづまじょうるり)21曲、第五巻―古今百首なげぶし（投節）と「哥音声并三味線弾方心得(うたおんせいならびにさみせんひきかたこころえ)」よりなる。翌04年（宝永1）には、本書の補遺的性格をもつ大木扇徳(せんとく)編『落葉(おちば)集』七巻が刊行され、主として劇場歌謡、踊歌、流行唄(はやりうた)の歌詞が絵入りで収録されている。

［茂手木潔子］

『浅野健二校注『松の葉』（『日本古典文学大系44　中世近世歌謡集』所収・1959・岩波書店）』

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