Nakamitsu (Manjū)
Nakamitsou（1901）Le théâtre au Japon: ses rapports avec les cultes locaux, Leroux, Paris [FR]
- 90Nakamitsou est l’une des premières oeuvres qui comptent plusieurs acteurs (5).
- 23“Nakamitsu,” which is a late piece, written when the poetical drama of the Middle Ages was already passing over into the prose play of modern times, contains several characters.
- 170[Nakamitsu]
- 212Nakamitsu, a piece translated by Mr. Chamberlain, Basil Hall, is one of these.
- 229It was responsible for many acts of barbarity, such as that of Nakamitsu, a favourite hero of Japanese drama and story, who slew his own innocent son, and substituted his head for that of his lord’s heir, who had been guilty of a capital offence.
- 76One of the most admired examples of unscrupulous virtue is Nakamitsu, applauded in 1898 as in 1598, for the same hero holds the stage for centuries.
- 76This is the story of Nakamitsu.
- 76His feudal lord, Manju, had confided a reprobate son, named Bijomaru, to his care, in the hope that a samurai’s 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.
- 76Years afterwards, when Bijomaru has become an irreproachable priest, he is restored to his father, who forgives Nakamitsu for disobeying him and rewards his self-sacrifice with the gift of an adopted son and an extensive tract of land.
- 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.
- 80The young girl, Yuko Hatakeyama, who cut her throat in expiation of the outrage offered to the Czarevitch ; the young wife of Lieutenant Asada, who, learning of his death on the battlefield, slew herself before his portrait, that she might follow him ; the forty soldiers, who took their own lives because the Government gave up Liaotung at the bidding of Russia, France, and Germany all these were as widely praised and honoured by their fellow-countrymen as Kumagaya or Nakamitsu.
- 6“Nakamitsu,” which is a late piece, written when the poetical drama of the Middle Ages was already passing over into the prose play of modern times, contains several characters.
- 92He querido envìarle una prueba de esta acción durante la época medio-eval y con este objecto le remito una adaptación al español de un drama lirico de esos años: NAKAMITSU.
- 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.
- 135This Noh is also known by the name Nakamitm, from the leading character.
- 37In this volume three No are translated under the titles of The Death Stone, Life is a Dream and Nakamitsu.