Shichiki ochi

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Scene from the flight of the seven

Shichiki ochi ( Japanese 七 騎 落 ), The Flight of the Seven , is the title of a Nō drama by an unknown author. The piece is a fourth game within the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The play is about the flight of Minamoto no Yoritomo after his defeat in the battle of Ishibashiyama in 1180, so it relates to a historical process involving real people. What is unusual for a no-piece is that the waki, who usually introduces the plot, only appears in the second act.

The following people occur:

  • Tsure: The general Minamoto no Yoritomo

The seven knights:

    • Shite: Doi Sanehira
    • Kogata: His son Tōhira
    • Tsure: Shingai Jirō
    • Tsure: Tsuchiya Saburō
    • Tsure: Tashiro Nobutsuna
    • Tsure: Tosabō Shōshun
    • Tsure: Okazaki Yoshizane
  • Waki: Wada Yoshimori
  • Kyōgen: A boatswain

action

  1. act
    1. Prelude: Yoritomo appears with an orchestral sound and with him the group of knights, including Doi Sanehira. Attribution of Yoritomo. He: "Get us a boat quickly." (Yoritomo in the knights sit down on the stage floor, which is now a boat.)
    2. Dialogue between Yoritomo and Sanehira: counting the knights, Sanehira says: "There are seven". Yoritomo: “With me there are eight, that promises disaster. Sanehira, let one out! ”Chorus:“ All men fought for the gentleman. The decision is difficult. "
    3. Yoritomo to Sanehira: "Ha, what are you hesitating?" Sanehira asks Yoshizane to get out. He lost a son in battle, his own life, as he says. But Sanehira still have two lives, the son and himself. Sanehira to Tōhira: "Then you get out!" The son wants to stay with the fighting. The father says then he must go to extremes and draws his sword. Yoshizane prevents Sanehira from killing the son. This then leaves the boat. The choir quotes a similar story from ancient times.
  2. act
    1. (The Wada Yoshinari's boat is pushed in.) Wada Yoshinari performs with an orchestral sound. The boatswain: “Above the rushing waves of the surf - terrible war cries can be heard.” Wada sees Yoritomo's boat. Conversation with Sanehira, who doesn't trust him and puts him to the test by pretending that Yoritomo was lost in battle. Wada then "... then I don't want to live any longer either!" He is held back, it was just a joke. You get out.
    2. .Wada asks "Why is Tōhira not with you?" Sanehira: "We had to leave him behind." Wada goes to the side entrance of the stage and pulls Tōhira out and says: "I was able to take him with me." He reports how he was on the edge of the Battle discovered the fighting Tōhira and I pulled out of his hopeless situation and fought my way to the boat. Sanehira is happy and is asked to dance a dance. The choir recites: “… With Sanehira's faithful service began his (i.e. Yoritomo) path. And the house of the brave warrior will flourish for a long time. "

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: The Flight of the Seven . In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X . Pp. 165 to 172.
  • Hermann Bohner: Shichi-ki-ochi In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 417 to 420.