Hachinoki
Hachi no ki(1921)A Diplomat in Japan, Seeley, Service & Co., London [EN]
- 397This was Hachi no ki.
- xix-xxEvery Noh play (with, I think, the sole exception of Hachi no Ki, translated on p. 71) includes a mai or dance, consisting usually of slow steps and solemn gestures, often bearing little resemblance to what is in America associated with the word “dance.”
- 64(Translations of Atsumori, Ikuta, Tsunemasa, Kumasaka, Eboshi-ori, Benkei on the Bridge, Kagekiyo, Hachi no ki, Sotoba Komachi, Ukai, Aya no Tsuzumi, Aoi-no-uye, Kantan, The Hо̄ka Priests, Hagoromo, Tani-kо̄, Ikeniye, Hatsu yuki, Haku Rakuten, with Introduction and Apendices)
- 19A typical No dance, full of allusion to Buddhist teachings, is that called Hachi-no-ki, or “The Plants”; it is amongst the favourite titdi of the No theatre.
- 63(Translations of Kumasaka, Kayoi Komachi, Yama-uba and Hachi-no-ki)
- 24 -25Hachinoki, Hashibenkei, Hо̄kazо̄, Dо̄jо̄ji, Tо̄ru, Okina, Kayoigomachi, Kantan, Kagekiyo, Yoroboshi, Tsuchigumo, Nakamitsu, Utо̄, Kurozuka, Kuzu, Kumasaka, Yamauba, Yо̄rо̄, Matsukaze, Funa-Benkei, Fujito, Kokaji, Aoino-ue, Ataka, Ama, Midare, Shichiki-ochi, Shakkyо̄, Shunkwan, Shо̄zon, Mochizuki, Sesshо̄seki, Semimaru, Sumidagawa – 35 in all.
- 39A scholarly historical, descriptive and critical introduction is followed by the translation of fifteen No and one Kyogen, these being: Atsumori, Ikuta, Tsunemasa, Kumasaka, Eboshi-Ori, Hashi-Benkei, Kotgekiyo, Hachi no Ki, Sotoba Komachi, Ukai, Aya no Tsuzumi, Aoi no Uye, Kantan, Hokazo, Hagoromo, Tanikо̄, Ikeniye, Hatsuyuki, Haku Rakuten,-and the farce Esashi Jūō (The Birdcatcher in Hell.)
- 44[HACHINOKI – OR POTTED TREES]
- 36-37Examples of this group are Hati-no-ki (The Pot-plants), Morihisa (Morihisa Saved), Kogō (Lady Kogō Found Out), Syunei (Syunei-maru Saved), Manju or Nakamitu (The Loyalty of Nakamitu), Syozon (Syozon Attacks Yositune), Ataka (Benkei at the Barrier of Ataka), Sitiki-oti (The Escape of Seven Warriors), Youti-Soga (The Soga Brothers Attacking by Night) and Daibutu Kuyō (Kagekiyo at the Ceremony of the Enshrining of the Daibutu).
- 60Hati-no-ki (Pot-Plants)