Household items - Oimono

It is a type of Joruri and Kabuki script. It is a historical piece that covers incidents that occurred in the households of the shogun, feudal lords, and hatamoto during the Edo period, and is also called Oie Kyogen. It is also used as an abbreviation of "Oie Sou Dobutsu" (family feudal lord), but more accurately it includes stories of revenge such as "Chushingura." It was popular in Kyoto and Osaka during the Genroku period (1688-1704). A group of villains plot to embezzle from the lord's house and encourage the young lord to live a life of debauchery, and after the loyal retainer suffers hardships, the villains are defeated and the family is safe. This type of storyline was widely used in later "Nino-Kairi Kyogen" (spring theater). Many plays were also produced that were dramatized from real events, such as "Sendaihagi" from the "Date Disturbance," "Kagamiyama" from the "Kaga Disturbance," and "Kamakurayama" from the "Tanuma Disturbance." However, because the use of real names was prohibited by shogunate law, it was customary to dramatize the places and names of people by replacing them with those from the Hojo or Ashikaga periods, for example, by setting "Chushingura" in the world of "Taiheiki." After the Meiji period, this law was abolished, and many scripts were written that used real names.

[Toshiaki Matsui]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

浄瑠璃(じょうるり)、歌舞伎(かぶき)脚本の一系統。時代物のうち、江戸時代の将軍家や大名、旗本の家中に起こった事件に取材したもので、お家狂言ともいう。「お家騒動物」の略としても使われるが、正確には『忠臣蔵』のような仇討(あだうち)物も含める。元禄(げんろく)期（1688～1704）には京坂で流行。悪人一味が主家の横領をたくらみ、若殿に放蕩(ほうとう)を勧め、忠臣が苦労したすえ、悪人滅びお家安泰になるという類型的な筋ができ、これが後代の「二の替り狂言」（春芝居）にも盛んに用いられた。また「伊達(だて)騒動」の『先代萩(せんだいはぎ)』、「加賀(かが)騒動」の『加賀見山(かがみやま)』、「田沼騒動」の『鎌倉山』など、実在の事件を脚色するものも多く生まれたが、これらは幕府の法令で実名を使うことを禁じられていたので、たとえば『忠臣蔵』を『太平記』の世界で描いたように、場所や人名を北条や足利(あしかが)の時代に置き換えて脚色するのが慣習だった。明治以後はその法令がなくなったため、実名を使う脚本も多く書かれている。

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