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Date : 3rd Nov.2009, starts at 13:30
Place : National Noh Theatre (Théatre National de Sendagaya, Tokyo)
Title: KAGEKIYO Shomon-no-ashirai, Tsue-no-kata
Noh : Kagekiyo UDAKA Michishige
Kyogen : Mizukumi
Tickets : 7000yen Front (Reserved Seating), 5000yen Side and Middle (General admission), 2000yen students,
Story:
A young woman called Hitomaru leaves her home in Kamegae near Kamakura to go with an Attendant in search of her father, the Heike warrior Taira-no-Kagekiyo, also known as Akushichibyoe, the ‘Hot- tempered’. It is rumored that he lives in exile in Hyuga, destitute and blind after putting out his own eyes rather than see his clan in defeat. Though she has not seen him since childhood, she hopes to meet him and hear of his life. Hitomaru and her Attendant find a blind man in a poor thatched hut who is in fact Kagekiyo, but he pretends not to know who they seek, both out of shame for his present condition and fearing that his daughter will be disgraced. In response to their inquiries, a Villager leads them again to Kagekiyo who at last recognizes his daughter. At the urging of the Villager, Kagekiyo tells his daughter of his role in the Battle of Yashima where he hoped to find and kill the Genji general Minamoto no Yoshitsune, but unable to do so, he attacked Minoya Juro a valiant warrior from Musashi Province, instead. They grappled, but Minoya was able to get away when the neck-piece of his armor broke. His tale finished, Kagekiyo begs Hitomaru to remember him in her prayers, and sends her on her way home.
The Tale of the Heike which describes the rise and fall of the Heike clan and its rival, the Minamoto clan (or Taira and Genji clans, depending on the reading of the kanji characters) at the end of the Heian period during the late 12 century, provides material for many Noh plays.
Kagekiyo is unusual in that a child searches for a parent, while in most 4th Category Noh it is a mother who searches for a missing child.
The passion and fiery temper of Kagekiyo are undimmed even now that he has fallen in the world, and are clear in his continuing struggle with his feelings as he first rejects, then accepts, his daughter and tells her of his days of glory long ago. There is no historical basis for his blindness or exile, as he was kept a prisoner in Kamakura after surrendering following the failure of an attempt to assassinate the Genji leader Yoritomo.
The Shomon-no-ashirai and Tsue-no-kata varitations add further color to the of story of Kagekiyo. In the first case, the flute accompaniment or ashirai, considered to be of special difficulty, expresses the loneliness and pathos of Kagekiyo’s life. The Tsue-no- kata, in which the actor uses and bamboo staff rather than a fan in his enactment of Kagekiyo’s encounter with Minoya, requires the delicacy and strength of a skilled master.
Author: attributed to Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443) Place and Season: Miyazaki in Hyuga, present day Miyazaki prefecture in Kyushu
Category: 4th Group, Ninjyo Human Feeling play Performance practice: the hut where Kagekiyo lives is represented by a tsukurimono set piece of bamboo with a thatched roof; Kongo school kogaki variations include Shomon-no-ashirai and Tsue-no-kata
Source: The Tale of the Heike, Book Eleven, Chapter V, ‘The Dropped Bow’
Characters (in order of appearance):
Tsure (accompanying actor of the shite school)…Hitomaru, the daughter of Kagekiyo, she wears a wig with a wig band and karaori brocade robe with red ground worn in kinagashi style over a surihaku foil decorated under-robe; Mask: Tsure Ko-Omote young woman’s mask Waki-tsure(accompanying actor of the waki school)…Hitomaru’s Attendant, he wears a suo-joge linen vest and trousers belted over a muji-noshime plain under-robe; he wears a short sword and carries a fan Shite (main actor)…the Heike warrior Akushichibyoe Kagekiyo. He wears a sumiboshi head covering, mizugoromo unlined cloak belted over a kogoshi atsuita under-robe and white okuchi stiff wide trousers, he has a fan and bamboo staff; Mask: Kagekiyo, used only in the play Kagekiyo Waki (secondary actor)…a Villager, he wears a suo-joge linen vest and trousers belted over a muji-noshime plain under-robe; he also wears a short sword and carries a fan
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