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Japanese: 江島生島物 - えじまいくしまもの

A type of Kabuki-Kyogen. Based on the love story between Ejima, a maidservant in Edo Castle, and Kabuki actor Ikushima Shingoro. The Ejima incident occurred in 1714 (Shotoku 4) when it was discovered by the elder Ejima that he had been intimate with actor Shingoro of the Yamamura-za theatre. Ejima was exiled to Takato in Shinshu and Ikushima to Miyakejima, over 1000 people involved were punished, and the Yamamura-za theatre was closed down. As a scandal related to the Tokugawa family, dramatization of the story was not permitted during the Edo period, but after the Meiji Restoration, it was often dramatized, including Kawatake Mokuami's "The Tale of Hourai Sogajima" in 1870 (Meiji 3).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

歌舞伎狂言の一系統。江戸城の奥女中江(絵)島と歌舞伎役者生島新五郎の情話に取材したもの。この江島事件は1714年(正徳4)，大年寄（おおどしより）江島が山村座の役者新五郎となじみを重ねたことが発覚，江島は信州高遠に，生島は三宅島に流罪，関係者1000余名が処分され，山村座は廃絶になったというもの。徳川家に関連する不祥事として江戸時代には脚色が許されなかったが，維新後は1870年(明治3)河竹黙阿弥の《宝萊曾我島物語》に扱われたのをはじめ劇化も多くなった。

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