Sumizome-zakura (Nō)

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Sumizome-zakura

Sumizome-zakura ( Japanese 墨 染 桜 ), black cherry blossoms , is the title of a Nō drama. The author is unknown, maybe it was Zeami . The piece is a third game within the Nō category. This no is not part of the standard repertoire, it is only performed at the death of the Tenno .

Preliminary remark

The poet Kamutsukeno Mineo (上 野 岑 雄) was active around 900. It is listed in the Kokin-shu .

The following people occur:

  • Waki: Kamutsuke no Mineo
  • Shite I: village girl
  • Shite II: Spirit of the Cherry Blossom

action

  1. act
    1. Mineo appears with an orchestral sound. Singing. Name and route naming. Arrival notification. In mourning for the Tennō, Mineo wants to visit the place where the Tennō has stayed so often to say hello to the cherry tree that he particularly loved. Mineo writes: “Cherry tree on the heather, | if you have a heart | bloom this spring | ink black, in mourning color. ”(He attaches the written poem to the cherry tree.)
    2. The spirit of the cherry blossom appears in the unrecognizable form of a village girl: “Who is calling me? What is your desire? ”She asks the poet to change the song and say:“ From this spring on, bloom only darkly colored! ”Then, showing itself as the spirit of the cherry blossom, it disappears in a light veil of mist.
    3. Interlude
  2. act
    1. Prayer (waiting chant) Mineos. The spirit of the cherry blossom appears in true form to the dreaming Mineo, praising cherry and cherry blossom. "Tree and herb in the ground - everything attains Buddha status". “The cherry tree is more excellent than all blossoms.” Praise to the blossoms of the cherry tree: everything in life was blossom-like thanks to the departed (Tennō). Dance to the newly changed song Mineos.
    2. Final chorus: “… In the light fog | The morning meets around the branches of the cherry tree. | The figure disappears. Only the pine, | Tree of life, tree of death, | rustles lonely. "

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sakamoto Kōsetsu (坂 本 浩 雪; 1800-1853).

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: Black cherry blossoms . In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X .
  • Hermann Bohner: Sumizome-zakura 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.