Maruhon - Maruhon

It refers to a book that contains the entire lyrics of a Gidayu-bushi piece. It is the opposite of a danmono (a piece containing only one section of a piece) or nukihon (practice book). It is usually used only for Gidayu-bushi, and in the case of other schools of Joruri, it is called shohon. It is also sometimes written as "inhon" and read as "maruhon," which is a conversion of a Chinese word meaning drama. In the world of Joruri, it was customary to publish a maruhon when a new work was performed, and this was maintained until the decline of the world. The early Joruri shohon was published as a reading material in a small-print book with pictures, but as the number of people practicing Joruri increased, Uji Kaga no Jo published a large-print eight-line book for practice, "Ushiwaka Senningiri," in 1679 (Enpo 7). Later, as Gidayu-bushi became more popular, eight-line books were published one after another, and eventually seven-line books began to be published with the publication of "Yoshinonomiyako Onna Kusunoki" in 1710 (the 7th year of the Hoei period). After that, nine-line, ten-line, eleven-line and twelve-line books were published, but the seven-line practice book has become the standard format for the Marubon.

[Jiro Yamamoto]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

義太夫(ぎだゆう)節の一曲全部の詞章を収めた版本をいう。一曲のうちの一段を収めた段物、抜き本（稽古(けいこ)本）に対することば。普通、義太夫節だけに用い、他の流派の浄瑠璃(じょうるり)の場合には正本(しょうほん)と称している。また、「院本」と書いて「まるほん」と読むこともあるが、これは中国で戯曲を意味する語を転用したもの。浄瑠璃界では新作上演の際には丸本を刊行するのが慣例で、衰退期までそれは守られていた。初期の浄瑠璃の正本は絵入りの細字本で読み物として刊行されていたが、やがて浄瑠璃を稽古する人が増えたため、宇治加賀掾(かがのじょう)が1679年（延宝7）稽古用の大字八行本『牛若千人切(うしわかせんにんぎり)』を刊行した。その後、義太夫節の流行に伴い、八行本が続々出版され、やがて1710年（宝永7）の『吉野都女楠(よしののみやこおんなくすのき)』以来七行本が始まり、その後、九行、十行、十一行、十二行本なども刊行されたが、七行の稽古本が丸本の標準的な形式となっている。

［山本二郎］

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