Sekidera Komachi

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Scene from the drama

Sekidera Komachi ( Japanese 関 寺 小 町 ), Komachi in the Seki Temple , is the title of a Nō drama by Zeami . The piece is a third game within the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The following people occur:

  • Waki: A priest
  • Wakitsure: accompanying monks
  • Kogata: Children
  • Shite: Ono no Komachi as an old woman

action

  1. Prelude: The main priest of the Seki Temple wants to make the children happy on this day. He has heard that there is a (now very old) poet, singer, and dancer living deep in the mountains and wants to lead the children to her so that they can hear a song from her. The children perform with an orchestral sound, along with the priest and his companion. Attribution.
  2. The scene is Ono no Komachi's hermitage, represented by a hut / backdrop. The poet sings “A bowl of food in the morning. If I don't beg about it, I get almost nothing. ”The garment is poor. New Vogelsang comes with spring, but the youth bloom never returns.
  3. Question and answer. First choir. The priest explains why he came with the children. Increasingly, the poet's spirit is enlivened, and in a long series of a beautiful tale she unfolds the story of the Japanese song. From the early days, when there was no writing and everything was indefinite and free, to the time of Emperor Nintoku and his famous Naniwa poems. Ono continues to tell up to his own teacher and her own poems, which fall like pearls into this nō ...
  4. The elderly poet, who doesn't even dare to come out, goes to the Sekidera with the priest and the children to celebrate the summer festival. Children's dance. Tempted by the dancing of the children, the old Komachi, once so celebrated in dance, begins a loving dance, culminating in the poem "A hundred years in bloom the butterfly dances ..."
  5. The morning dawns, the lovely night falls. Chorus: “Leaning on the staff, the old woman returns to the hut. Immortal Komachi ... "

Remarks

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

literature

  • Donald Keene (Ed.): Komachi at Sekidera . In: Twenty Plays of the Nō Theater. Columbia University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-231-03455-5 .
  • Hermann Bohner: Sekidera-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.