Tsunemasa

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Taira no Tsunemasa

Tsunemasa ( Japanese 経 政 ), the first name of a historical figure from the end of the Heian period , forms the title of a Nō drama by Seami . The piece is a second game in the Nō category.

Preliminary remark

Taira no Tsunemasa ( 平 経 政 ; 1124–1185) was a brother of Taira no Kiyomori . He lost his life in the sea ​​battle of Dan-no-ura .

The action takes place at the Ninna-ji Temple in Kyoto.

The following people occur:

  • Waki: Abbot of Ninna-ji, Sōzu Gyōkei ( 僧 都 行 慶 )
  • Shite: The spirit of Taira no Tsunemasa

action

  1. act
    1. Foreplay. Enter Gyōkei. Attribution. A funeral mass is to be held, with the deceased's biwa serving as an offering. First choir: "We bring the Biwa ... and especially the Seizan lute."
    2. Tsunemasa speaking outside the stage. Question and answer. Gyōkei: “How strange! I felt as if I saw a shadow of a figure in the light of our torch ... “Tsunemasa's spirit disappears again. “I am the spirit of tsunemasa. Your prayer made my shadow visible to you. "Choir:" Only as a magical ghost, disembodied forever, can I return to this world ... "
    3. Question and answer. Gyōkei: “How strange! He disappeared and his voice is still around me ... "Tsunemasa replied," Remembering the days of yore and the high favor ... I always played the lute. "Choir:" He grabbed it and played it. How these tones take hold of our heart! "
    4. Exchange speech: "We play for the dead ..." the departed steals to the lute. The choir recites, which culminates with a quote from a poem by Bai Juyi as a declamation, “The first, the second string ...” climax, dance.
    5. graduation

Note

This Nō was brought under the title "Zeami Motokiyo: The Lute of the Tsunemasa" under the direction of Walter Knaus with the speaker Erich Uhland in 1953 as a radio play.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Taira no Tsunemasa plays the Biwa at the Tsukubusuma Shrine. Woodcut by Suzuki Shuitsu (1823–1889).
  2. ↑ Seizan ( 青山 ), Chinese Chingshan, the name of the lute / Biwa means "blue mountains".

literature

  • Peter Weber-Schäfer: The sounds of the Tsunemasa . In: Twenty-four Nō games. Insel Verlag, 1961. ISBN 3-458-15298-X . Pp. 61 to 74.
  • Hermann Bohner: Tsune-masa In: Nō. The individual Nō. German Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Tōkyō 1956. Commission publisher Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. Pp. 90 to 94.