Uwanari Uchimono - Uwanari Uchimono

Japanese: 嫐打物 - うわなりうちもの

A style of Kabuki and Ningyo-Joruri. Uwanari means second wife, and by extension it has come to mean jealousy. The practice of a divorced first wife gathering women from relatives and acquaintances to break into the house of the second wife (uwanari) was practiced until the early Edo period. Although the name is the same, the Kabuki and Ningyo-Joruri Uwanarimono is not a direct adaptation of this play, but refers mainly to a style of performance depicting jealousy caused by vengeful spirits. In Kabuki, it is said to have first been performed in Edo in March 1699 (Genroku 12) in the Edo Nakamuraza Theater's Isshin Gokaitama, the premiere of the Kabuki Juhachiban Uwanari, but this is merely the oldest record of a role of this style being played by the Ichikawa Danjūrō family.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歌舞伎，人形浄瑠璃の演出の一系統。〈うわなり〉とは後妻，次妻の意，転じて嫉妬の意味に用いられた。離別された先妻が親類知人の女性を集めて後妻（うわなり）のところに乱入するという後妻打ちが江戸初期まで行われた。名称は同じだが，歌舞伎，人形浄瑠璃の〈嫐打物〉はこれを直接脚色したものではなく，主として怨霊による嫉妬の演出の系統をさす。歌舞伎では，江戸で1699年(元禄12)3月江戸中村座の《一心五界玉》に演ぜられたものが最初とされ，歌舞伎十八番の《嫐》の初演とされているが，これは市川団十郎家でこの系統の役を演じた最古の記録というにすぎない。

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