Kayoi Komachi

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Scene from the drama

Kayoi Komachi ( Japanese 通 小 町 ), love-wooed Komachi , is the title of a Nō drama by Zeami . The piece is a fourth game within the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The following people occur:

  • Waki: A priest
  • Tsure I: A village woman
  • Tsure II: Spirit of the Ono no Komachi
  • Shite: Spirit of Major General Fukakusa

action

  1. act
    1. Prelude: The scene takes place in a monk's hut. A monk appears with his name: “I am a monk who spends a summer here in the mountains of Yase. An unknown woman comes every day and brings wood and fruit. I want to ask her who she is. "
    2. Accompanied by an orchestral sound, the ghost of Ono no Komachi appears in the unrecognizable figure of a woman collecting wood in the well-known Yase costume. She sings: “I am a woman who lives in Ichiwarano. There is currently a monk living in the mountain village of Yase, and I am offering him fruit and wood. First choir. Explanation: She indicates who she is, asks for a prayer for salvation, and leaves. Words of the astonished priest who leaves his hermitage and prays for the departed.
  2. act
    1. The scene becomes Ichiwarano. With an orchestral sound, the secluded Ono no Komachi appears in true form. Glad for the priest's prayer, she asks to be allowed to receive the Buddha commandments. But to prevent this, the departed Major General Fukakusa comes: he once came 99 nights to win Komachi's promise of love and love. But, repeatedly rejected by the intransigent, he collapsed in the hundredth night from pain and despair and died. Exchange speech, dispute.
    2. Words of the priest who stands up for Komachi. Exchange speech between Komachi and Fukakusa about the hundred nights, transitioning into movements of Fukakusa that show the agony and hardship of the hundred nights.
    3. Chant of Fukakusa: "... And so I exhausted my heart to the last ..." Both experience the Buddha's becoming together.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Woodcut by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月 岡 耕 漁; 1869–1924).

literature

  • Donald Keene (Ed.): Twenty Plays of the Nō Theater. Columbia University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-231-03455-5 .
  • Hermann Bohner: Kayoi-Komachi In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 323 to 325.
  • Ernesto Fenollosa: Kayoi-Komachi In: Nō - From the genius of Japan. Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Serge Einstein. Die Arche, Zurich, 1963. ISBN 3-7160-1912-7 .