Tōru (Nō)

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Dance of the Tōru

Tōru ( Japanese 融 ), a male given name, is the title of a Nō drama by Seami . It is a fifth game in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

The place of the action is Rokujōhara. Perform: A priest from the East ( Waki ) and a salt-scooping man ( Shite ), in the 2nd act as the spirit of Minamoto no Tōru.

action

  1. Act:
    1. The priest comes to Rokujōhara on his journey to the capital.
    2. A man scooping and bringing in the sea appears.
    3. Exchange speech.
    4. Continued conversation, instruction about the sights of the capital.
  2. Act:
    1. Waiting song of the priest. He falls asleep and dreams.
    2. Tōru appears in real form and sings about the old splendor of his princely estate under the moonlight in alternating song with the choir and dancing until the moon passes. Morning approaches and Tōru disappears.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Represented by Umewaka Mansaburō I. (梅 若 万 三郎 初 世; 1869–1946).
  2. ↑ Minamoto no Tōru (源 融; 822-895) was a statesman and poet of the Heian period .

Post Comment

Bohner writes that the princely seat of Minamoto no Tōru became a myth early on. Tōru is said to have set up a salt boiler (塩 釜, Shiogama) at his palace in Rokujōhara in southern Kyoto, which he filled with seawater every day. He is even said to have shown his guests the ebb and flow of the tide. Big festivals were celebrated there.

literature

  • Kita school (ed.): Tōru (text and stage directions, Japanese). Daycare school, 1980.
  • Hermann Bohner: Tōru 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.