Tamura (Nō)

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Tamura ( Japanese 田村 ), the name of a general from ancient times, is the title of a Nō drama by Seami . The piece is a second game in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758–811) is the model for General Tamura. The following people occur:

  • Waki: A monk from the east
  • Wakizure: Two accompanying monks
  • Shite I: temple servant
  • Shite II: Spirit of General Tamura

action

  1. act
    1. Prelude: The cherries bloom on Kiyomizu-dera . With an orchestral sound, a monk from the east appears with two accompanists. You are on your way to the capital Kyoto and visit this magnificent temple. Name, route and arrival name.
    2. Appearance with an orchestral sound: "Look there, a temple servant, he's sweeping the floor so neatly by the blossoming trees."
    3. Question and answer. In-depth instruction from the servant about the foundation of the temple, the shogun. "This is the hour, worth more than a thousand lumps of silver." Singing, praising the waterfall, the flowers and the temple. Increase in the sense of what is speaking in the inconspicuous figure of the servant. The servant: "If you want to know who I am, see where I am going." The servant disappears into the temple. - interlude.
  2. act
    1. Waiting singing. Monk: "Waiting all night under waving flowers ... Waving flowers are the wonderful place of the Dharma, the heart, purified in the light of the moon, now I read and recite sutras." The general appears in his true form, praising the reading of the sutras that connects him with the living and enables him to appear. The monk is amazed at the defensive man who has appeared. Tamura: “What should I hide longer? It is I, the first of all shoguns ... that I have performed warlike deeds and brought the great peace, I owe this temple and its Kannon . ”Choir. Tamura: "All land is king's land ... ordered by our great ruler, I set out to judge the evil devils of the Susuga mountains of the land of Ise ..." This is followed by a large epic-dramatic report of the fighting, increasing to the representation of the fighting. "Mountain and river filled with the howling of the devil demons, echoing towards heaven, filling the earth ..."
    2. "Everything is Kanon's benevolent rule."

Post Comment

No hell pain shows this Nō; consciously omits this. The first half is filled with blossoms and the beauty of the moon. The second half has a strong masculine and heroic character. The end is religious, without the piece becoming too Buddhist.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Woodcut by Tsukioka Kōgyo (月 岡 耕 漁; 1869–1924).

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: General Tamura . In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X .
  • Hermann Bohner: Tamura In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 107 to 109.
  • Ernest Fenollosa: Tamura In: Nō - From the genius of Japan. Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa, Serge Einstein. Die Arche, Zurich, 1963. ISBN 3-7160-1912-7 .