Yasuna

Kabuki dance. Kiyomoto. This is a passage from the Shichihenge dance "Miyama no hana todo kanue daburi" performed by Onoe Kikugoro III at the Miyakoza in Edo in March 1818 (Bunka 15). The lyrics were written by Shinoda Kinji, the music by Kiyozawa Mankichi (the first Kiyomoto Saibei), and the choreography by Fujima Shinzaburo and Fujima Daisuke (the second Kanjuro). This dance is based on the second act of the Joruri play "Ashiya Doman Ouchi Kagami," in which Abe no Yasuna goes insane over the death of his lover Sakaki no Mae, and wanders the spring fields clutching a keepsake kosode. It has been passed down as a masterpiece of Kiyomoto, and the dance was lost at the end of the Edo period, but was revived by Ichikawa Danjūrō ​​IX in the Meiji period, and became very popular in the Taisho period when Ichikawa Kikugoro VI began directing with fantastical stage sets and an emphasis on psychological portrayal. There is also an old-fashioned version involving a slave.

[Toshiaki Matsui]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

歌舞伎(かぶき)舞踊。清元(きよもと)。1818年（文化15）3月、江戸・都座で3世尾上(おのえ)菊五郎が踊った七変化(へんげ)舞踊『深山桜及兼樹振(みやまのはなとどかぬえだぶり)』の一節で、作詞篠田(しのだ)金治、作曲清沢万吉（初世清元斎兵衛(さいべえ)）、振付け藤間新三郎・藤間大助(だいすけ)（2世勘十郎）。浄瑠璃(じょうるり)『芦屋道満大内鑑(あしやどうまんおおうちかがみ)』の二段目「小袖物狂(こそでものぐるい)」の場、安倍(あべの)保名が恋人榊(さかき)の前(まえ)の死を嘆くあまり狂気して、形見の小袖を抱いて春の野をさまようくだりを舞踊化したもの。清元の名曲として伝わり、振は幕末に絶えていたのを、明治期に9世市川団十郎が復活、大正期には6世菊五郎が幻想的な舞台装置で心理描写に重きを置いた演出を始めてから、大いに流行するようになった。別に奴(やっこ)が絡む古風な演出もある。

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