Sakuragawa
Sakura-gawa（1911）“Translations from the “Nō””, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, n.a. [EN]
- 166Sakura-gawa is, in fact, one of a group of pieces (Kiо̄jo mono) in which the chief personage is a madwoman. Such are Sumida-gawa, possibly the best, where a mother, driven mad by grief at losing her child, wanders forth in search, to hear by chance that he is dead; Hanjo, where a girl deranged by parting roams the countryside until she finds her lover; Minadzuki-barai, where a wife, lost by her husband, is found by him raving before a shrine, praying that she may meet him; Hyakuman, and several others of similar construction.
- 168[THE CHERRY BLOSSOM RIVER (Sakura-gawa)]
- 166Sakura-gawa is, in fact, one of a group of pieces (Kiо̄jo mono) in which the chief personage is a madwoman.
- 166In Sakura-gawa the lyric passages are a pot-pourri of flower conceits.
- 56Sakura-gawa (The Mother on the River Sakura)
- 31He renders the exquisite fragment from the Sakuragawa as follows–
- 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.”
- 35In the “Lunatic Pieces” a madman is sometimes represented, but in most cases a mad woman, such as the mother who goes mad through losing her child, as in Sakuragawa (The Mother on the River Sakura), Mii-dera (The Mother at the Court of the Temple Mii), Hyakuman (The Mother Hyakuman at Saga) and Sumidagawa (The Mad Mother on the River Sumida);