Manjū (Nakamitsu)
Manju（1901）Japanese Plays and Playfellows, Heinemann, London [EN]
- 76His feudal lord, Manju, had confided a reprobate son, named Bijomaru, to his care, in the hope that a samurais control would prove more efficacious than a priest’s ; but, as Bijomaru continued to “indulge in all sorts of wild sports, sometimes going so far as to kill innocent common people,” Nakamitsu was ordered to put him to death.
- 76For Nakamitsu’s act was voluntary, and his son, eager to be sacrificed on the altar of duty, welcomed death, while Manju had not demanded such cruel fidelity.
- 130* More often, following the Chinese pronunciation of the characters composing the word, called Manju.
- 135MANJU
- 20When the Kyo play is substituted by a Genzaimono play, we find a court scene, as. in “Ohara Goko,” or the family life of a samurai, as in” Manju.”
- 38This book is primarily historical but it gives translations of seven Nо̄ of different types-Okina, Chikubu Shima, Himuro, Eguchi, Fuji (The Spirit of the Wistaria), Manju ( or Nakamitsu), Ohara Goko; and one amusing Kyogen, Busu, with outline descriptions of three others.
- 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).
- 59Manzyū or Nakamitsu (The Loyalty of Nakamitsu)