Kashiwazaki
Kashiwazaki（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.
- 18But the lyrical ones include the romanitc plays, such as “Matsukaze,” “Yuya,” “Izutsu,” the plays depciting mother-love, like “Sumidagawa,” Sakuragawa,” “Miidera,” “Kashiwazaki,” and also such pieces as “Semimaru,” and “Kagekiyo.”
- 20The fourth class generdly deals with the subject of a mind distraught, of a mother seeking for her lost child, as in” Kashiwazaki,” “Sumidagawa,” “Miidera,” “Sakuragawa,” “Hyakuman,” or of one crazed by love, as in “Dojoji.”
- 40In “Kashiwazaki” we hear ·that “in the voice reciting the Nembutsu (calling on the name of Amida) there is the light of Amida waiting to receive all sinners.
- 41Again, we have the worship of Shakamuni in such plays as ” Hyakuman,” ” Ama,” and ” Kashiwazaki ” ; of Maitreya and his Tushita heaven ; of the Bodhisattva Monju (Manjusri) and Fugen (Samantabhadra).
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- 38A fifty-page introduction is followed by translations of six plays: Aridoshi, Ebira, Ninin Shizuka, Kashiwazaki, Tsuchigumo, Yuki; and summaries of seven others are given.
- 57Kasiwazaki (The Lady of Kasiwazaki)