Kakitsubata
Kaki-tsubata（1925）Explanations of Nō plays: a vade mecum for spectators of Nō plays, Nōgakukai, Tokyo [EN]
- 24Iwafune, Hagoromo, Tomoe, Chōryō, Nue, Orochi, Kamo, Kaki-tsubata, Kashiwazaki, Kanawa, Yorimasa, Youchisoga, Tadanori, Takasago, Tamura, Sotobakomachi, Tsurukame, Raiden, Ukai, Uta-ura, Nomori, Nonomiya, Kuramatengu, Kurumazo, Kwagetsu, Yashima, Kenjō, Fujitaiko, Kosode-soga, Tenko, Aioi, Ayanotsuzumi, Aridōshi, Saigyōzakura, Sagi, Sakuragawa, Kinuta, Kiyotsune, Yuya, Miwa, Miidera, Shōjō, Jinenkoji, Shō-kun, Hyakuman, Momiji-gari, Morihisa, Zegai, Sumagenji, Eboshi-ori, Ebira, Ema—52 in all.
- 103But these passions are just as real, though we see them in retrospect, as in Kagekiyo, or by inference, as in Kakitsubata.
- 43 In the “Kakitsubata the spirit of the iris-flower goes to the Pure Land of the Western Paradise.
- 38This volume contains Fenollosa, Ernest’s notes on Nо̄, and to the four plays privately printed at the Cuala Press in Mr. Pound’s translations it adds versions of Sotoba Komachi, Kayoi Komachi, Suma Genji (referred to by Mrs. Beck), Shojo, Tamura, Tsunemasa, Kinuta, Aoi no Uye (the story of jealousy described by Mrs. Beck), Kakitsubata (also described by Mrs. Beck), Chorio and Genjo – fifteen plays in all.
- 17In the Kakitsubata., the cast is even smaller-a traveling priest, the ghost of a girl, and the Chorus.
- 7So far as I am aware only one or two of these No texts have been previously rendered into English, namely, Hatsu-yuki, very admirably and accurately done by Waley, Arthur in his volume of No translations, and Kakitsubata and Tamura which are to be found in that of Fenollosa, Ernest and Pound, but in a version which, though elegant in parts, bears little relation to the Japanese text, as was only to be expected considering the circumstances under which the book was compiled.
- xxiiiHatsu-yuki and Kakitsubata are characteristic of the metamorphosis No.
- 9KAKITSUBATA
- 34those in which a female plant-spirit is the leading character are Basyo (The Spirit of the Plantain tree), Kakitubata (The Spirit of the Iris) and Mutsura (The Spirit of the Maple-tree);
- 55Kakitubata (The Spirit of the Iris)