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Aisome-gawa (Noh)
''Aisome-gawa'' (藍染川, "Aisome River"), also known as ''Some-gawa'' (染川), is a Japanese Noh play. The libretto's author is unknown, but it was being performed as early as 1514. It is in present repertoires of two of the major Noh schools, Kanze and . The story concerns a former lover of the high priest of the Dazaifu Tenman-gū who travels to Kyūshū to see him, but is tricked by his jealous wife into committing suicide. The priest prays at his shrine, and the deity, Tenman-Tenjin, manifests and resurrects the lover. The play was modified early on because of disruption at performances. It influenced several later works of literature. Genre, authorship and date ''Aisome-gawa'' is a Noh play. More specifically, it is classified as a ''genzai'' Noh (現在能), a relatively realistic work featuring human characters and taking place in a linear time line. It is a ''yonbanme-mono'' (四番目物). It is of unknown authorship, and in the modern era it is part of the reperto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanze (Noh School)
Kanze (観世) is a school of ''Noh'' (能), a Japanese classic musical drama. It was founded in the 14th century. It is led by the 26th grand master Kiyokazu Kanze, who became head at the age of 31. The theatre stage moved to the redeveloped Matsuzakaya building at Ginza Ginza ( ; ja, 銀座 ) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi. It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous intern .... References External links Official homepage * {{japan-music-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muromachi Period
The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (''Muromachi bakufu'' or ''Ashikaga bakufu''), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi ''shōgun'', Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336) of imperial rule was brought to a close. The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga. From a cultural perspective, the period can be divided into the Kitayama and Higashiyama cultures (later 15th – early 16th centuries). The early years from 1336 to 1392 of the Muromachi period are known as the '' Nanboku-chō'' or Northern and Southern Court period. This period is marked by the continued resistance of the supporters of Emperor Go-Daigo, the emperor behind the Kenmu Restoration. The Sengoku period or Warring States period, which begi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwanami Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.Louis Frédéric, ''Japan Encyclopedia'', Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409. Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel ''Kokoro'', which appeared as a book in 1914 after being serialized in the ''Asahi Shimbun''. Iwanami has since become known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Japanese literature, dictionaries, and high-quality paperbacks. Since 1955, it has published the ''Kōjien'', a single-volume dictionary of Japanese that is widely considered to be authoritative. Iwanami's head office is at Hitotsubashi 2–5–5, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Company history Iwanami Shigeo founded the publishing firm Iwanami Shoten in the Kanda district of Tokyo in 1913. In its early years, the company published authors such as Natsume Sōseki, Kurata Hyakuzō and Abe Jiro. It also published academic and literary journals in the field of philosophy, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten
Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten (Japanese: 日本古典文学大辞典) is a reference work about Japanese literature published by Iwanami Shoten circa 1983-1985. References External links * CiNii CiNii () is a bibliographic database service for material in Japanese academic libraries, especially focusing on Japanese works and English works published in Japan. The database was founded in April 2005 and is maintained by the National Institu ... Reference works Japanese non-fiction books {{ref-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisome-gawa (jōruri) , Tokyo, Japan
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Aisome-gawa (Japanese 藍染川, 'Aisome River') may refer to: *Aisome-gawa (Noh), a Japanese Noh play *Aisome-gawa (otogi-zōshi), a Japanese illustrated short story, an adaptation of the play * Aisome-gawa (jōruri), a Japanese traditional narrative music piece based on Aisome-gawa (Noh) See also *Aisome, a village annexed into Ikeda, Nagano, Japan *Shakujii River The is a river which flows through the northwest quadrant of central Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the tributaries of the Arakawa River. With a total length of and a drainage basin of , it is categorized as a Class A river by the Japanese govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jōruri (music)
is a form of traditional Japanese narrative music in which a sings to the accompaniment of a . accompanies , traditional Japanese puppet theater. As a form of storytelling, emphasizes the lyrics and narration rather than the music itself. According to Asai Ryōi, the first performer to have ever employed the during his storytelling, instead of the , was chanter Sawazumi. The story he narrated was , one of the many existing versions of the , which tells the tale of the tragic love between Minamoto no Yoshitsune was a military commander of the Minamoto clan of Japan in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. During the Genpei War, he led a series of battles which toppled the Ise-Heishi branch of the Taira clan, helping his half-brother Yoritomo conso ... and Jōruri-hime. Following this event, every tale sung to the accompaniment of a became emblematic of the style. See also * Japanese styles of music Japanese traditional music Japanese words and phrases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aisome-gawa (otogi-zōshi)
''Aisome-gawa'' (藍染川, "Aisome River") is an anthology of Japanese short stories, or an ''otogi-zōshi''. The text dates to the Muromachi period, and survives in a single manuscript in the possession of the Keiō University Library. It is an adaptation of an eponymous Noh play. Genre and date ''Aisome-gawa'' is a work of the ''otogi-zōshi'' genre. It is an adaptation of the story of the Noh play of the same name. The sole surviving manuscript was likely copied in the late Muromachi period. Plot A woman named Umetsubo no Jijū (梅壺の侍従) makes her way from the capital to the Dazaifu Tenmangū accompanied by her daughter Umechiyo, in order to meet the high priest of the Tenmangū. Umetsubo no Jijū asks her innkeeper, Sakon no Jō (左近尉), to deliver a letter to the priest for her. The priest's wife orders Sakon no Jō to send the two away, but he decides to protect them and hide them away somewhere. Jijū asks Sakon no Jō and his wife to take care of Umechi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otogi-zōshi
are a group of about 350 Japanese prose narratives written primarily in the Muromachi period (1392–1573). These illustrated short stories, which remain unattributed, together form one of the representative literary genres of the Japanese medieval era. Overview is a general term for narrative literature written between the Muromachi period (approximately 1336–1573) and the beginning of the Edo period (1603–1867). The term originates with a mid-Edo collection of 23 stories, titled or . It later came to denote other works of the same genre and period. Modern scholarship sometimes distinguishes between "true" , covering only the 23 works included in the aforementioned collection, and other works that it instead terms or . List The 23 tales covered by the narrow definition are: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Under the broad definition, there are around 500 surviving examples of . Most are around 30–40 pages in length, and are of uncertain date. Their a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinto
Shinto () is a religion from Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners ''Shintoists'', although adherents rarely use that term themselves. There is no central authority in control of Shinto, with much diversity of belief and practice evident among practitioners. A polytheistic and animistic religion, Shinto revolves around supernatural entities called the . The are believed to inhabit all things, including forces of nature and prominent landscape locations. The are worshiped at household shrines, family shrines, and ''jinja'' public shrines. The latter are staffed by priests, known as , who oversee offerings of food and drink to the specific enshrined at that location. This is done to cultivate harmony between humans and and to solicit the latter's blessing. Other common rituals include the dances, rites of pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surrounding islands. Kyushu has a land area of and a population of 14,311,224 in 2018. In the 8th-century Taihō Code reforms, Dazaifu was established as a special administrative term for the region. Geography The island is mountainous, and Japan's most active volcano, Mount Aso at , is on Kyushu. There are many other signs of tectonic activity, including numerous areas of hot springs. The most famous of these are in Beppu, on the east shore, and around Mt. Aso in central Kyushu. The island is separated from Honshu by the Kanmon Straits. Being the nearest island to the Asian continent, historically it is the gateway to Japan. The total area is which makes it the 37th largest island in the world. It's slightly larger than Taiwan island . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dazaifu Tenman-gū
Dazaifu may refer to: * Dazaifu, Fukuoka is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, part of the greater Fukuoka metropolitan area.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Dazaifu" in . Nearby cities include Ōnojō and Chikushino. Although mostly mountainous, it does have arable land ..., a city in northern Kyūshū * Dazaifu (government), the regional government in northern Kyūshū {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heian-kyō
Heian-kyō was one of several former names for the city now known as Kyoto. It was the official capital of Japan for over one thousand years, from 794 to 1868 with an interruption in 1180. Emperor Kanmu established it as the capital in 794, moving the Imperial Court there from nearby Nagaoka-kyō at the recommendation of his advisor Wake no Kiyomaro and marking the beginning of the Heian period of Japanese history. According to modern scholarship, the city is thought to have been modelled after the urban planning for the Tang dynasty Chinese capital of Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an).. It remained the chief political center until 1185, when the samurai Minamoto clan defeated the Taira clan in the Genpei War, moving administration of national affairs to Kamakura and establishing the Kamakura shogunate. Though political power would be wielded by the samurai class over the course of three different shogunates, Heian remained the site of the Imperial Court and seat of Imperial p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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