Ōmu Komachi

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Scene from the drama

Ōmu Komachi ( Japanese 鸚鵡 小 町 ), Papagai Komachi , reciprocal Komachi , is the title of a Nō drama by Zeami . The play, one of the five about the celebrated poet Ono no Komachi , is a third play in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The following people occur:

  • Waki: Priest Yukiie (行家)
  • Shite: Young woman

action

  1. Prelude: Yukiie appears with naming flute. Mention of names: “In the service of Yōzei, I am the new Dainagon Yukiie. The emperor, who values ​​poetry above all, has heard that Ono no Komachi, who has no equal in it, has now been living lonely in Tenpel Sekidera for a hundred years. He sends me to her with a poem I wrote to express his participation. "
  2. Ono no Komachi appears with an orchestral sound. The lonely old poet is portrayed.
  3. Conversation. The imperial poem is presented. Praise and thanks. Reply with slight change (ōmu-gaeshi) of the same. The poem (in free transfer): “High in the clouds (ie in the imperial palace) once did not change, (you) lived in the emperor's place” (in glorious times) “you often think of it (longing, loving) ? “Komachi changes the questioning ya into the surely answering zo in an extremely skilful way .
  4. Increase. Talking about poetry Komachi, Yukiie brings up Narihira (業 平) and his Hōraku no mai (法 楽 舞) in honor of the deity of the Jewel Ford Island Temple , namely Tamatsushima myōjin (玉 津 島 明 神), who are considered one of the three protective deities of poetry is revered. This goes over in a natural way into the presented rhythm, plastic, dance in the manner of Narihira's Hōraku no mai, performed by the old, once celebrated woman, culminating in a poetry lecture on poems (waka) and the ōmu-gaeshi.
  5. Painful farewell to Yukiie's lonely figure Komachi. Final choir.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Woodcut by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月 岡 耕 漁; 1869–1924).
  2. ↑ According to Bohner, the highlight of this Nō is the poem in reply: this Nō is unique in comparison to the other Komachi-Nō.
  3. ↑ Ariwara no Narihira (在 原 業 平; 825-880) was a Japanese waka poet and aristocrat.

literature

  • Hermann Bohner: Ōmu-Komachi In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 323 to 325.