Takasago (Nō)

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Scene from Takasago

Takasago ( Japanese 高 砂 ), a place name, is the title of a Nō drama by Seami . Earlier titles were Ai-oi ( 相 生 ) or Aioi-matsu ( 相 生 松 ), meaning “pine trees sprouting together”. The piece is a first play in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

Pine trees at Takasago Shrine

The following people occur:

  • Waki: Priest Tomonari
  • Shite I: old man
  • Shitezure I: old woman
  • Shite II: deity of Sumiyoshi
  • Shitezure II: deity of Takasago

action

  1. act
    1. Prelude: Priest Tomonari from the Aso Shrine in Kyūshū is on his way to the capital. Choir. Name, route and arrival name.
    2. An old man and his old wife, when asked by the priest, extol the beauty of the beach and the trees.
    3. The priest: “It is said that the pines of Takasago and Sumiyoshi grow near each other, but they are in completely different provinces.” The two old men answer that he is from Sumiyoshi and she is from here, but what does the great distance matter when you love each other.
    4. The priest continues to ask. The two answer that they are one, like the ruler with his people, like the superior with the inferior. - The two old men are leaving. Interlude. - “These were not simple people, Tagasago and Sumiyoshi deities themselves were there, man and woman! Your spirit lives in the trees of life. "
  1. act
    1. The priest took the ship to Sumiyoshi. Waiting song of the priest. The Sumiyoshi god appears and blesses the prince and the country: “Many years have passed since I saw the sun corn pine (Himematsu) on Sumiyoshi beach; at that time I was high in years. ”“ My supplication always blessed the ruler; I have been associated with the ruler since ancient times. Eternal, as the trees of life sprout together, man and woman, the basic unit of our empire. "
    2. Round dance. The dance hime of bright song reverberating on the waves, truly is like "blue ocean waves".

Remarks

  1. ↑ Quoting an imperial word from the Ise Monogatari , Kokinshū .

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: Two pines (Takasago). In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X .
  • Hermann Bohner: Takasago 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.