Hagoromo

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Scene from Hagoromo

Hagoromo ( Japanese 羽衣 'Das Federgewand ' ), in German feather dress , is the title of a Nō drama by Seami .

The work is an adaptation of the legend Hagoromo Densetsu which can be traced back to the 8th century and shows similarities with the legend of the " Swan Maiden " known in Europe .

Preliminary remark

The location of the action is the pine forest strip on the Bay of Mihō ( Mihō no matsubara ) below Mount Fuji at the time of spring. There are: a (female) angel as the main character ( Shite ), the fisherman Hakuryū as the initiator of the action ( Waki ) and two fishermen as companions ( Waki-zure ).

action

  1. First act: the fisherman appears with two companions. You board a boat to cross the stormy seas to the Mihō peninsula.
  2. Second act:
    1. The fisherman recites. “I climb up to the pine forest beach of Mihō and look. See there, flowers fall from the sky and heavenly music sounds. ”The fisherman sees the heavenly garment on one of the pines. He wants to keep it as a treasure of the house. The angel appears, it is her garment that she cannot do without.
    2. The fisherman, seized by her pain, decides to give her the robe back. He asks for a dance for it. She thanks that she can now return to heaven.
    3. Angel's Dance to the Choir. “Why do we call heaven Hisakata ? At the time when the two primordial gods created the world, the sky was infinite. "
    4. A choir concludes the piece.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Woodcut by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月 岡 耕 漁; 1869–1924).
  2. ↑ Hisakata ( 久 方 / 久 堅 ) is an old word that already occurs in Man'yōshū . It signifies the eternal above us: heaven and the stars.

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: The feather robe (Hagoromo). In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X .
  • Kita-Schule (ed.): Hagoromo (text and stage instructions, Japanese). Daycare school, 1980.
  • Hermann Bohner : Hagoromo In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.