Shiga (Nō)

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Scene from the play

Shiga ( Japanese 志 賀 ) is the title of a Nō drama by Seami . The piece is a first play in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The god of Shiga is the poet Ōtomo no Kuronushi (大 友 黒 主), who lived in the 9th century and is considered one of the three patron gods of Japanese poetry. The piece takes place at the time of the cherry blossom at Lake Biwa .

The following people occur:

  • Waki: A court official
  • Wakizure: Two followers of the officer
  • Shite I: Old lumberjack
  • Tsure: Young woodcutter
  • Shite II: God of Shiga

action

  1. act
    1. Prelude: The court official appears with an orchestral sound with two companions to contemplate the splendor of the flowers on Lake Biwa. Name, route and arrival naming.
    2. The spirit of the now divinely revered poet Ōtomo no Kuronoshi appears with an orchestral sound in the form of an old woodcutter, accompanied by a young woodcutter.
    3. Dialogue between the official and the poet with the poet's song: "He breaks blossoms at the edge of the road and puts them on his already heavy burden, the woodcutter in spring!" There are further allusions to the same topic in Kuronushi's poems or in the preface of the Kokinshu . First choir.
    4. It tells of Emperor Daigo's happy reign and the creation of Kokinshu, the deity protecting the song and the blessing of the song for the land and people. Kuronushi reveals himself and resigns.
  2. act
    1. Waiting singing. Official and entourage: "Today we want to spend the night on the spring heather." (The official falls asleep. In his dream Kuronushi appears to him in his true divine form.) Kuronushi: "Above the spring-bright Lake Biwa to the old pine of Karasaki. " Choir. Dance of god.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Woodcut by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月 岡 耕 漁; 1869–1924).
  2. ↑ "Night Rain on Karasaki" with its large pine is one of the eight views of Lake Biwa .

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: The God of Shiga . In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X .
  • Hermann Bohner: Shiga In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 61 to 62.