Kurama-Tengu (Nō)

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Scene from Kurama Tengu

Kurama-Tengu ( Japanese 鞍馬 天狗 ), is the title of a Nō drama by Seami . It is a fifth game in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The location of the action is the Kuramayama, the "Sattelroß-" or "Rappenberg" in the north of Kyoto with its dense, dark forest. There are an unusually large number of people:

  • Shite I: A wandering priest
  • Shite II: The great Tengu
  • Child I: Ushiwaka
  • Child II: like child
  • Children: several Taira children of the Taira clan
  • Waki: Monk from the Eastern Valley
  • Waki-zure: several monks
  • Ai: Messenger from the western valley

action

  1. Act:
    1. Prelude: The Great Tengu appears as a mountain monk (Shite I) and looks at the flowers of the Kurama Temple.
    2. Enter the Messenger of the Western Valley (Ai). The messenger has brought a letter with him, an invitation to the monks of the eastern valley to look at the flowers of the western valley, which are currently in their full glory. Ushiwaka (child) with five or six other noble boys from the Taira family perform together with the monk of the Eastern Valley (Waki) and his two companions (Wakizure). First choir (Age-uta): "The flowers are so beautiful that they hardly need a special invitation".
    3. In the west valley. Conversation between the monks of the eastern valley and the messenger of the western valley. The latter dances a little, then notices the strange mountain monk and wants to chase him away, fearing a disturbance. The East Valley monk tries to mediate, but the messenger still wants to see the mountain monk chased away. The monk leaves with the boys, except Ushiwaka. The messenger goes off too.
    4. Song of the mountain monk: “Where flowers bloom in spring, you stop and no one asks, is it a stranger, is it a friend. The noble gentleness seems alien to the monks when the gracious Buddha adorns their altar. ”Conversation between Ushiwaka and the mountain monk: Ushiwaka declares that he stayed because he does not belong to the Taira. The mountain monk who knows him comforts him. Ushiwaka thanks and asks the mountain monk who he is. He no longer hides himself and replies that he is the Great Tengu. The choir recites, “The Taira must be overthrown.” The mountain monk and Ushiwaka leave.
  1. Act:
    1. Enter Ushiwaka. Choir: "And come devils and demons, it is like the mountain cherry blossom, bold and beautiful in a storm". Now the Great Tengu (Shite II) appears in real form with an entourage. Tengu and choir describe the mountain ghosts who came with them in an alternating speech. The Tengu asks why Ushiwaka treats the little mountain spirits so considerately and gently during the fighting exercises. Ushiwaka replies that he is doing this in order to avoid any rebuke from the Great Tengu. The Tengu finds in it the same chivalrous disposition that Zhang Liang once showed. Now the great tengu teaches the art of fencing in dance, with Ushiwaka proving to be a good opponent. It is he who can destroy the taira. The great tengu declares that he always wants to comfort and protect him and disappears. Ushiwaka is also leaving.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Print by Tsukioka Kōgyo ( 月 岡 耕 漁 ; 1869–1927).
  2. ↑ Ushiwaka was the youth name of Minamoto no Yoshitsune . In the text of the daycare school he is called Sana (沙 那).
  3. ↑ Zhang Liang (張良), died 186 BC, was a Chinese statesman and general.

Others

“Kurama Tengu” appears in the title of a whole series of short stories by Osaragi Jirō . There is also "Kurama tengu - Kakubējishi no maki" by Makino Masahiro (1938), where Kakubējishi ( 角 兵衛 獅子 ) refers to a rural No in Niigata Prefecture , and "Kurama Tengu - Secret Mission" ( 鞍馬 天狗 ・ 薩摩 密 使 Kurama tengu Satsuma misshi ) with director Suganuma Kanji and camera Kazuo Miyagawa .

literature

  • Kita school (ed.): Kurama-Tengu (text and stage directions, Japanese). Daycare school, 1980.
  • Hermann Bohner: Kurama-Tengu In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 629 to 631.